The Slumbering Masses : Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life.

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Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Quadrant book.
Temas:
Sleep disorders > United States.
Sleepwalking > United States.
Lifestyles > United States.
Sleep.
Sleep disorders.
Lifestyles.
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders
Central Nervous System Stimulants > therapeutic use
Hypnotics and Sedatives > therapeutic use
Life Style
Troubles du sommeil > États-Unis.
Somnambulisme > États-Unis.
Style de vie > États-Unis.
Sommeil.
Troubles du sommeil.
Style de vie.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Sleep & Sleep Disorders.
Lifestyles
Sleep disorders
Sleepwalking
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The Slumbering Masses, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the United States, tracing the influence of medicine and industrial capitalism on the sleeping habits of Americans from the nineteenth century to the present. Before the introduction of factory shift work.
Notas:"A Quadrant Book."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (306 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816682737
0816682739
9781452947341
1452947341

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