Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Anesthesia

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why anesthesia is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Bluesky
• @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
• 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow
• Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development (The Lancet)
• The Mystery Behind Anesthesia (MIT Technology Review)
• How does anesthesia work? Experts still have questions. (Popular Science)
• Medical Treatments: Anesthesia (Cleveland Clinic)
• Tests & Procedures: General anesthesia (Mayo Clinic)
• Anesthetists, At Least, Report That Only an Unlucky Few Are Aware During Surgery (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Is the Unconscious Mind Aware of Its Surroundings? New Research Suggests Anesthetized Brains Can Process Overheard Words (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? (The New York Times)
• What Sedated Plants Can Teach Scientists About Anesthetizing People (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The art of anaesthesia (London Science Museum)
• Painless Dreams: In the 19th century, chemical oblivion replaced liquor, opiates, and bleeding as the numbing agent of choice for surgeons. (Science History Institute Philadelphia)
• Anesthesia in the Civil War (National Museum of Civil War Medicine)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 (NobelPrize.org)
• First Heart Transplant Performed 35 Years Ago (U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration)
• The Ether Dome -- Boston, Massachusetts (Atlas Obscura)
• Ether in Surgery (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
• A short history of fires and explosions caused by anaesthetic agents (British Journal of Anesthesia)
• Dr. Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis: The Unrecognized Pioneer of Aseptic Practices (Cureus)
• Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Deja Vu