| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
A Quadrant book |
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Quadrant book
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
"A Quadrant Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sleep disorders -- United States
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Sleepwalking -- United States
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Lifestyles -- United States
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Sleep.
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Sleep disorders.
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Lifestyles.
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Sleep
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Sleep Wake Disorders
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Central Nervous System Stimulants -- therapeutic use
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Hypnotics and Sedatives -- therapeutic use
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Life Style
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Sleep & Sleep Disorders.
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Sleep
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Lifestyles
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Sleep disorders
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Sleepwalking
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012017393 |
| ISBN |
9780816682737 |
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0816682739 |
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9781452947341 |
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1452947341 |
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