Aesthetics and Anesthetics Aesthetics are defined as a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement. Anesthetics are drugs used to prevent pain during surgery, that makes the patient unconscious so the surgeon can operate on the patient. Relating to this course, anesthesia represents the influence of technology and media on society and shows how easy manipulation and controlling can be with anesthesia. It informs us how our opinions and perceptions of things, right and wrong, moral and immoral are actually determined for us. This is proven because these factors change over time.
Susan Buck-Morss presented in her analysis, “Aesthetics and Anesthetics: Walter Benjamin’s Artwork Essay Reconsidered,” …show more content…
Most likely not. The observers would feel uncomfortable and empathetic toward the patient being operated on and have no sympathy for the surgeon performing the act.
Anesthesia is of great importance and is used extensively in surgeries today. What does anesthesia do? It allows the patient to be free of pain and unconscious during a procedure. It allows the doctor to be able to operate because the patient is remaining still and not reacting to pain. It allows the observers to view the practice as humane because the patient is not in pain. Anesthesia has benefits for every party in this relationship. It takes away the patient’s pain, but it also allows observers and doctors to not be in emotional pain due to watching the patient suffer.
There are negatives and positives to anesthesia in the doctor/patient/observer’s situation. Since the invention of anesthesia, patients can often be viewed as just body parts lying on a table. Anesthesia allows the patient to be unconscious and free of pain. The patient does not respond to being cut open unlike a normal human being, thanks to the anesthesia. A patient under anesthesia has consented to allow the surgeon to operate on them, but since they are unconscious, the surgeon can take advantage of this and manipulate and shape in ways that were not agreed
Susan Buck-Morss presented in her analysis, “Aesthetics and Anesthetics: Walter Benjamin’s Artwork Essay Reconsidered,” …show more content…
Most likely not. The observers would feel uncomfortable and empathetic toward the patient being operated on and have no sympathy for the surgeon performing the act.
Anesthesia is of great importance and is used extensively in surgeries today. What does anesthesia do? It allows the patient to be free of pain and unconscious during a procedure. It allows the doctor to be able to operate because the patient is remaining still and not reacting to pain. It allows the observers to view the practice as humane because the patient is not in pain. Anesthesia has benefits for every party in this relationship. It takes away the patient’s pain, but it also allows observers and doctors to not be in emotional pain due to watching the patient suffer.
There are negatives and positives to anesthesia in the doctor/patient/observer’s situation. Since the invention of anesthesia, patients can often be viewed as just body parts lying on a table. Anesthesia allows the patient to be unconscious and free of pain. The patient does not respond to being cut open unlike a normal human being, thanks to the anesthesia. A patient under anesthesia has consented to allow the surgeon to operate on them, but since they are unconscious, the surgeon can take advantage of this and manipulate and shape in ways that were not agreed