Sleep multi-professional perspectives (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 ins
Introduction : the university of sleep / Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe -- The science of sleep : what is it, what makes it happen and why do we do it? / Louise Paterson -- Chronobiology and the timing of sleep / Katharina Wulff -- Cultures of sleep / Brigitte Steger -- Medical anthropology and children's sleep : the mismatch between western lifestyles and sleep physiology / Caroline Jones and Helen Ball -- Beyond death's counterfeit : the sociological aspects of sleep / Robert Meadows -- A question of balance : the relationship between daily occupation and sleep / Andrew Green -- Recording and quantifying sleep / Nigel Hudson -- Broken sleep : sleep disorders / Jane Hicks and Andrew Green -- Sleep and psychiatry / Dietmar Hank, Jane Hicks, and Sue Wilson -- Medication and sleep / Sue Wilson -- Too tired to sleep / Alex Westcombe and Hazel O'Dowd -- Ambivalent attitudes towards sleep in world religions / Stephen Jacobs -- That sweet secession : sleep and sleeplessness in western literature / Lee Scrivner -- Sleeping on it / Andrew Green