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The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
By Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.
- ISBN
- 9780816674749
- Publisher
- Univ. of Minnesota
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Reviewed on August 1, 2012 | Social Sciences
Wolf-Meyer (anthropology, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) explores the history and politics of sleep in America, including how medical and pharmaceutical communities have codified what constitutes normal and disordered sleep. He uses case studies to consider cultures of sleep—interactions between the individual sleeper and cultural institutions that require certain kinds of sleep and then (often unwittingly) punish those whose sleep habits do not fit neat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
