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

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Analyzes and critiques how sleep and sleep disorders are understood and treated.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sleepwalking.
Sleep disorders.
Lifestyles.
Sleep.
Style de vie.
Troubles du sommeil.
Sommeil.
Troubles du sommeil > États-Unis.
Somnambulisme > États-Unis.
Style de vie > États-Unis.
Life Style
Hypnotics and Sedatives > therapeutic use
Central Nervous System Stimulants > therapeutic use
Sleep Wake Disorders
Sleep
Sleep disorders > United States.
Sleepwalking > United States.
Lifestyles > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface: sleep at the turn of the twenty-first century
  • Introduction: from the lone sleeper to the slumbering masses
  • Sleeping, past, and present
  • The rise of american sleep medicine : diagnosing and misdiagnosing sleep
  • The protestant origins of American sleep
  • Sleeping and not sleeping in the clinic : how medicine is remaking biology and society
  • Cultures of sleep
  • Desiring a good night's sleep : order and disorder in everyday life
  • Now I lay me down to sleep : children's sleep and the rise of the solitary sleeper
  • Pharmaceuticals and the making of modern bodies and rhythms
  • Early to rise : creating well-rested American workers
  • Chemical consciousness
  • Sleeping on the job : from siestas to workplace naps
  • Take back your time : activism and overworked Americans
  • The limits of sleep
  • Unconscious criminality : sleepwalking murders, drowsy driving and the vigilance of the law
  • The extremes of sleep : war, sports, and science
  • Conclusion: the futures of sleep
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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