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The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep Research (Paperback)
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The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep Research (Paperback)
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We tend to think of sleep as a private concern, a night-time
retreat from the physical world into the realm of the subconscious.
Yet sleep also has a public side; it has been the focal point of
religious ritual, philosophic speculation, political debate,
psychological research, and more recently, neuroscientific
investigation and medical practice. In this first ever history of
sleep research, Kenton Kroker draws on a wide range of material to
present the story of how an investigative field - at one time
dominated by the study of dreams - slowly morphed into a
laboratory-based discipline. The result of this transformation,
Kroker argues, has changed the very meaning of sleep from its
earlier conception to an issue for public health and biomedical
intervention. Examining a vast historical period of 2500 years,
Kroker separates the problems associated with the history of
dreaming from those associated with sleep itself and charts
sleep-related diseases such as narcolepsy, insomnia, and sleep
apnea. He describes the discovery of rapid eye movement - REM -
during the 1950s, and shows how this discovery initiated the
creation of 'dream laboratories' that later emerged as centres for
sleep research during the 1960s and 1970s. Kroker's work is unique
in subject and scope and will be enormously useful for both sleep
researchers, medical historians, and anybody who's ever lost a
night's sleep.
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