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

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Quadrant book.
Subjects:
Sleep disorders > United States.
Sleepwalking > United States.
Lifestyles > United States.
Sleep.
Sleep disorders.
Lifestyles.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Sleep & Sleep Disorders.
Sleep
Lifestyles
Sleep disorders
Sleepwalking
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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