The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Book Overview

Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The Slumbering Masses , Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the United States, tracing the influence of medicine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816674744
• ISBN13: 9780816674749
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"