Sleep multi-professional perspectives
Record details
- ISBN: 9780857002570 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0857002570 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781283905886 (MyiLibrary)
- ISBN: 1283905884 (MyiLibrary)
- ISBN: 9781849050623 (paper)
- ISBN: 1849050627 (paper)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (328 p.) : ill. - Publisher: London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : the university of sleep / Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe -- The science of sleep : what is it, what makes it happen and why do we do it? / Louise Paterson -- Chronobiology and the timing of sleep / Katharina Wulff -- Cultures of sleep / Brigitte Steger -- Medical anthropology and children's sleep : the mismatch between western lifestyles and sleep physiology / Caroline Jones and Helen Ball -- Beyond death's counterfeit : the sociological aspects of sleep / Robert Meadows -- A question of balance : the relationship between daily occupation and sleep / Andrew Green -- Recording and quantifying sleep / Nigel Hudson -- Broken sleep : sleep disorders / Jane Hicks and Andrew Green -- Sleep and psychiatry / Dietmar Hank, Jane Hicks, and Sue Wilson -- Medication and sleep / Sue Wilson -- Too tired to sleep / Alex Westcombe and Hazel O'Dowd -- Ambivalent attitudes towards sleep in world religions / Stephen Jacobs -- That sweet secession : sleep and sleeplessness in western literature / Lee Scrivner -- Sleeping on it / Andrew Green. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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