- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 288 p.)
- Series Statement
- A Quadrant book
- Uniform Title
- Slumbering masses (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Slumbering masses (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012017393
- OCLC
- ssj0000758601
- Author
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.
- Title
The slumbering masses [electronic resource] : sleep, medicine, and modern American life / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
- Series
A Quadrant book
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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