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Mapping the darkness the visionary scientists who unlocked the mysteries of sleep

Journalist Kenneth Miller weaves science with history to tell the story of four outsider academics who carried the study of sleep from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession. In the 1920s Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world's first dedicated sleep lab, with breakthrough experiments in 1938. Klei...

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Main Author: Miller, Kenneth (Journalist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kleitman, Nathaniel, > 1895-1999.
Dement, William C., > 1928-2020.
Aserinsky, Eugene, > 1921-1998.
Carskadon, Mary A.
Sleep > Research > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Coming into the territory. Exodus
  • Arrival
  • Coming into the territory
  • Descent and transformation
  • Part II: Chasing dreams. The body electric
  • A new continent
  • Chasing dreams
  • Pathway to paradox
  • A society of scientists
  • The frontier shifts
  • A new vision
  • Part III: Awakening. The birth(s) of sleep medicine
  • Decoding the clockwork
  • Seeing patterns
  • Beyond pills and scalpels
  • Crossroads
  • Catastrophe
  • Awakening
  • Epilogue
  • Diagram: The anatomy of sleep
  • Appendix A: A time line of sleep science ; Appendix B: Meanwhile, in a parallel universe: a brief prehistory of chronobiology.

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