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Instructive
and gruesome in equal parts, this program enters the operating theater with
eyes wide open to observe how "fast and dirty" surgery—inexpressibly brutal
in the time before anesthesia—led to 19th-century breakthroughs in the area
of pain management. Traveling from the Victorian era to the present day, the
program charts the evolution of anesthesiology and reviews the
trial-and-error research behind anesthetic substances ranging from
chloroform and nitrous oxide to cocaine and ketamine. Dr. David Wilkinson,
president of the Confederation of European National Societies of
Anaesthesiology, is featured. Viewer discretion is advised. A BBCW
Production. (49 minutes)
Copyright date: ©2004
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