Sleep
eBook - ePub

Sleep

Multi-Professional Perspectives

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sleep

Multi-Professional Perspectives

About this book

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.

The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways in which sleep can be affected by medication and medical and psychiatric conditions.

This groundbreaking and insightful book will be of great interest to students, academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and anyone else who wishes to discover more about this fascinating topic.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 The Science of Sleep
  8. 3 Chronobiology
  9. 4 Cultures of Sleep
  10. 5 Medical Anthropology and Children’s Sleep
  11. 6 Beyond ‘Death’s Counterfeit’
  12. 7 A Question of Balance
  13. 8 Recording and Quantifying Sleep
  14. 9 Broken Sleep
  15. 10 Sleep and Psychiatry
  16. 11 Medication and Sleep
  17. 12 Too Tired to Sleep
  18. 13 Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Sleep in World Religions
  19. 14 That Sweet Sec ession 1
  20. 15 Sleeping on It
  21. Glossary
  22. The Contributors

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