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For some context do a search for "infant surgery without anesthesia". Allegedly infant surgeries were routinely done without anesthesia into the 70's. It was
by evv555 11y ago
For some context do a search for "infant surgery without anesthesia". Allegedly infant surgeries were routinely done without anesthesia into the 70's. It was believed babies do not really feel pain and we are just anthropomorphizing their reflexive responses. Anthropomorphization is a real phenomena that needs to be taken into account but so is the use of skepticism as a tool for rationalizing established beliefs.
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- pvaldes 11y ago> It was believed babies do not really feel pain Or maybe it was because too many anesthesia can easily kill a baby and the other option was seen as safer and better for his/her life. Not all in the history of the humanity is necessarily related with the new painphobia wave. In any case that history about paralized babies and evil surgeons seems entirely or mostly faked to me, telled in the most truculent way possible to elicit a visceral reaction and attract donors or gain social cookies.
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