The slumbering masses [electronic resource] : sleep, medicine, and modern American life / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.

Series:

A Quadrant Book

A quadrant book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lifestyles--United States.

Lifestyles.

Sleep disorders--United States.

Sleep disorders.

Sleepwalking--United States.

Sleepwalking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4734-1

0-8166-8273-9

OCLC:

815383350