Wild nights how taming sleep created our restless world
"Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? While human history presents a vast diversity of sleeping styles, today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents....
| Main Author: | Reiss, Benjamin (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The gates of sleep
- Part I: The invention of normal sleep
- Before sleep was normal
- A different drummer
- Part II: Taming sleep
- Lady Macbeth's doctor, or, Sleepwalkers and lunatics
- Sleeping slaves, waking masters
- Part III: Rocking the cradle
- Wild things
- Utopian sleepers
- Part IV: Global weirding
- Beyond normal
- Epilogue. Three chairs.