Sleep: Multi-professional PerspectivesJessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012 - 328 páginas 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. |
Conteúdo
Foreword | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
The University of Sleep | 13 |
What is it What Makes it
Happen and Why Do We Do it? | 18 |
Biological Rhythms that
Influence Sleep | 41 |
4 Cultures of Sleep | 68 |
The
Mismatch Between Western Lifestyles and Sleep
Physiology | 86 |
The Sociological
Aspects of Sleep | 104 |
10 Sleep and Psychiatry | 190 |
11 Medication and Sleep | 209 |
12 Too Tired to Sleep | 226 |
13 Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Sleep in World
Religions | 247 |
Sleep and Sleeplessness in
Western Literature | 268 |
15 Sleeping on It | 291 |
Glossary | 314 |
The Contributors | 316 |
The Relationship Between
Daily Occupation and Sleep | 121 |
8 Recording and Quantifying Sleep | 149 |
Sleep Disorders | 167 |