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

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285 Index .................. addiction, 16, 43, 146, 148, 244. See also habit advanced sleep phase syndrome (ASPS), 41 agency, 23, 42, 61, 182, 203–4. See also culpability agrarianism, 15, 73, 138–40, 196–97 Ambien, xiv, 18, 34, 88, 94, 162, 219, 224, 246, 259. See also Z-drugs ambiguity: of law, 223–24; of medical diagnosis, 126; of scientific knowledge , 28, 65 apnea, 10, 28, 38–40, 113–20, 244 Aserinsky, Eugene, 35–36 bed sharing, 11, 56, 101–8, 113–20, 130–33 Beggars in Spain (Kress), 250–51 Beyond Time (Siffre), 230–36 bioethics, 20, 245–46, 254–58 biopolitics, 21, 141, 155, 157, 199 biphasic sleep, xiii, 3, 57, 162, 164–55, 168, 182, 259–60 caffeine, 15, 18–19, 41–42, 78, 90, 104–5, 122, 146, 152–54, 156, 169, 177–79, 198–99, 229, 236, 239, 255, 260 capacity, 23, 52, 72, 74, 83, 117, 175–76, 260, 276n1 capitalism, 3–4, 16–20, 89, 139, 141, 155, 157, 181–82, 184, 187, 194, 250–51, 260 children’s literature, 129, 133–38 circadian rhythms, 2, 10, 38, 41–42, 52, 54, 65, 73–74, 156, 161, 164–67, 169, 177, 187, 198, 226–27, 231–36 coffee. See caffeine colonialism, 8–9, 18, 91–93, 255 consciousness, chemical, 15–19, 42, 50, 104–5, 109, 120–22, 125, 137–38, 146, 148, 154, 156, 163, 169, 171–79, 199, 204, 237, 251–52 consolidated sleep, xi, xiii–xiiv, 3, 8, 18, 33, 37–38, 47, 50, 55, 63, 66, 72, 75, 77, 103, 107, 109, 130, 133, 135, 140, 150, 156, 161–65, 168, 171, 181, 240, 249, 255–56, 259–60 culpability, 23, 42, 61, 179, 203–19. See also agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 225–31 delayed sleep phase syndrome, 41–42, 75, 78 Index 286 Deleuze, Gilles, 4–5, 256, 268n23 Dement, William, 28, 31, 34–38, 47, 52–53, 65, 71–78, 166, 204, 248–49 desire: definition of, 5, 14–16, 256–57 disorder: definition of, 92 doubt, 3, 5–8, 21–22, 29, 50, 52, 75, 78, 84, 89–90, 92, 94–95, 109–10, 174, 209 dreams, 35–37, 44, 46, 64, 123–25, 204–7, 217, 222, 241, 244, 250 drowsy driving, 204–5, 215–20, 223–24 Edgar Huntly (Brown), 205–8 Edison, Thomas, 1–2, 18–20, 72, 85 efficiency, 18, 22, 38, 52–55, 59–60, 62–65, 67–68, 70–73, 78, 238, 250 evolution, xiv, 74, 76, 124, 162–63, 230, 247–50, 254, 257 excessive sleepiness (ES), 7, 147–48, 156, 178 extremes: definition of, 226–27 fatal familial insomnia (FFI), 45–46, 240–42 flexibility: individual, 20, 65, 72–73, 75, 78, 155–57, 164, 175, 198, 247; institutional, 19, 78, 112, 142, 184, 194, 196–99, 248, 252 fragmented sleep, 41, 161 Franklin, Benjamin, 55, 140, 142, 179 gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB). See Xyrem genetics, 7, 42, 43, 45, 54, 93, 126, 187, 189, 229–30, 240–41, 249–50 Goodnight Max (Wells), 133–35 Goodnight Moon (Brown), 129, 135–36 Guattari, Félix, 4–5, 268n23 habit, 5, 52, 54–61, 64–66, 71–72, 77, 107, 141, 148, 151, 172, 174, 244 Hall, William Whitty, 55–58 Hammond, William, 59–61, 75 hegemony, 20, 77, 89, 95, 140, 143, 183 “Hush Little Baby,” 136–37 ideals as normative, 10–11, 80, 84–88, 103, 137, 140, 142–43, 169, 177, 179, 182–83, 188–89, 257, 274n36 inevitability: sleep as, 57, 66, 72, 75 infant sleep, 131–33 insinuation. See media insomnia: primary, 32, 40–41, 161; secondary, 32, 41, 161; sleep maintenance , 41, 161–62, 172 institutions as incessant, 17–18, 184, 187, 193, 224 intensification, xi–xiv, 8, 17–19, 87, 89, 100, 168, 189 intent. See culpability intimacy, 13, 16, 23, 93, 100–28, 142, 164, 170, 211, 254, 276n1 Jouvet, Michel, 35, 249 Kleitman, Nathaniel, 35–36, 52–54, 65–71, 76–78, 133–34, 137, 245–48 Laird, Donald, 27, 53, 62–65 Lavie, Peretz, 248 Ledru, Robert, 222–23 Lefebvre, Henri, 4–5 Lunesta, xiv, 18, 88, 145, 243, 258. See also Z-drugs Lyman, Henry, 27 Macnish, Robert, 27, 36 Maggie’s Law, 216, 218, 223 287 Index Mahowald, Mark, 122, 124, 246, 276n7 Mammoth Cave, 54, 65–68, 76 masses, the, 12...