Drug cocarbalism. Life in the era of anesthesia. Suster de Laurent

What is common between the invention of anesthetics in the middle of the 19th century, the use of cocaine Nazis and the development of a prose? All of them are a product of the same logic that determines the new stage of modernity - the "era of anesthesia." Laurent de Sutter tells how our life is now characterized by the management of emotions with the help of drugs, starting from the daily use of sleeping pills and ending with potent drugs. Chemistry entered us so much that we can’t even understand how much it changed us.