Re: Memory, birth, and general anesthetics

[Mike Scoles]

Is scopolamine used during any other medical procedures--like open-heart surgery?  Why is it anti-female? Beth Benoit wrote: Could the general anesthesia have been or included scopolamine?  This is a drug commonly used during labor.   It does not dull the pain with much effectiveness, BUT the patient can't REMEMBER the pain.  Its effects might be argued (by me, but also others!) as rather anti-female.  It actually meanders down the same path as the tree-falling-in-the-forest:  even if the patient was in agony, if she can't remember it, was there any pain?? -- ***************************************************************** * Mike Scoles                      *    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   * * Department of Psychology         *    voice: (501) 450-5418   * * University of Central Arkansas   *    fax:   (501) 450-5424   * * Conway, AR    72035-0001         *                            * ********* http://www.coe.uca.edu/psych/scoles/index.html ********