Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University.

Produktdetails

• Quadrant Book
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780816674756
• ISBN-10: 0816674752
• Artikelnr.: 45102154

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Preface: Sleep at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Introduction: From the Lone Sleeper to the Slumbering Masses
Part I. Sleeping, Past and Present
1. The Rise of American Sleep Medicine: Diagnosing (and Misdiagnosing)
Sleep
2. The Protestant Origins of American Sleep
3. Sleeping and Not Sleeping in the Clinic: How Medicine Is Remaking
Biology
and Society
Part II. Cultures of Sleep
4. Desiring a Good Night’s Sleep: Order and Disorder in Everyday Life
5. Before We Fall Asleep: Children’s Sleep and the Rise of the Solitary
Sleeper
6. Pharmaceuticals and the Making of Modern Bodies and Rhythms
7. Early to Rise: Creating Well-Rested American Workers
8. Chemical Consciousness
9. Sleeping on the Job: From Siestas to Workplace Naps
10. Take Back Your Time: Activism and Overworked Americans
Part III. The Limits of Sleep
11. Unconsciousness Criminality: Sleepwalking Murders, Drowsy Driving,
and the Vigilance of the Law
12. The Extremes of Sleep: War, Sports, and Science
Conclusion: The Futures of Sleep
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index