AnaesthesiaYou know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the and then you wake. This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago, many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it possible. But how much do we really know about what happens to us on the operating table? Can we hear whats going on around us? Is pain still pain if we