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Anesthesiologist (health) and Geiger, Theodor Julius (sh)


Anesthesiologist (health)


A physician or, less often, a dentist who is specialized in the practice of anesthesiology, the branch of medicine involving the use of drugs or Other agents that cause insensibility to pain. There is a major distinction between an anesthesiologist and an anesthetist. An anesthesiologist has a doctorate whereas an anesthetist does not. An anesthetist is a nurse or technician trained to administer anesthetics.





Geiger, Theodor Julius (sh)




born Nov. 9, 1891, Munich, Ger.
died June 16, 1952, at sea

German sociologist.

An early critic of the Nazis, Geiger fled to Copenhagen, where in 1938 at the University of ?rhus he became Denmark's first professor of sociology. He studied social stratification and mobility, examining Danish intellectuals and the people of ?rhus. His posthumous Democracy Without Dogma (1964) expressed his vision of a society depersonalized by ideology but redeemed by human Relationships.