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

Contents

CONTENTS .................. abbreviations ix preface Sleep at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century xi introduction From the Lone Sleeper to the Slumbering Masses 1 I. SLEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT 1. The Rise of American Sleep Medicine 27 Diagnosing and Misdiagnosing Sleep 2. The Protestant Origins of American Sleep 51 3. Sleeping and Not Sleeping in the Clinic 79 How Medicine Is Remaking Biology and Society II. CULTURES OF SLEEP 4. Desiring a Good Night’s Sleep 99 Order and Disorder in Everyday Life 5. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep 129 Children’s Sleep and the Rise of the Solitary Sleeper 6. Pharmaceuticals and the Making of Modern Bodies and Rhythms 145 7. Early to Rise 159 Creating Well-Rested American Workers 8. Chemical Consciousness 171 9. Sleeping on the Job 181 From Siestas to Workplace Naps 10. Take Back Your Time 191 Activism and Overworked Americans III. THE LIMITS OF SLEEP 11. Unconscious Criminality 203 Sleepwalking Murders, Drowsy Driving, and the Vigilance of the Law 12. The Extremes of Sleep 225 War, Sports, and Science conclusion The Futures of Sleep 243 acknowledgments 263 notes 265 index 285 ...