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Sleep : multi-professional perspectives /
This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume. The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia, PA :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the university of sleep / Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe
- The science of sleep : what is it, what makes it happen and why do we do it? / Louise M. Paterson
- Chronobiology : biological rhythms that influence sleep / Katharina Wulff
- Cultures of sleep / Brigitte Steger
- Medical anthropology and children's sleep : the mismatch between western lifestyles and sleep physiology / Caroline H.D. Jones and Helen L. Ball
- Beyond 'death's counterfeit' : the sociological aspects of sleep / Robert Meadows
- A question of balance : the relationship between daily occupation and sleep / Andrew Green
- Recording and quantifying sleep / Nigel Hudson
- Broken sleep : sleep disorders / Jane Hicks and Andrew Green
- Sleep and psychiatry / Dietmar Hank, Jane Hicks, and Sue Wilson
- Medication and sleep / Sue Wilson
- Too tired to sleep / Alex Westcombe and Hazel O'Dowd
- Ambivalent attitudes towards sleep in world religions / Stephen Jacobs
- That sweet secession : sleep and sleeplessness in western literature / Lee Scrivner
- Sleeping on it / Andrew Green.