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

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

THE SLUMBERING MASSES The publication of this book was assisted by a bequest from Josiah H. Chase to honor his parents, Ellen Rankin Chase and Josiah Hook Chase, Minnesota territorial pioneers. THE SLUMBERING MASSES Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer a quadrant book University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new, more collaborative model of research and publication. Sponsored by Quadrant’s Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig). http://www.quadrant.umn.edu An earlier version of chapter  was published as “The Nature of Sleep,” Comparative Studies in Society and History , no.  (): –; copyright  Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History; reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press. An earlier version of chapter  was published as “Sleep, Signification, and the Abstract Body of Allopathic Medicine,” Body and Society , no.  (December ): –. Earlier versions of chapters  and  were published as “Precipitating Pharmakologies and Capital Entrapments: Narcolepsy and the Strange Cases of Provigil and Xyrem,” Medical Anthropology , no.  (February ): –; reprinted by permission of Taylor and Francis, Ltd. An earlier version of chapter  was published as “Fantasies of Extremes: Sports, War, and the Science of Sleep,” Biosocieties , no.  (August ): –. Copyright  by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press  Third Avenue South, Suite  Minneapolis, MN - http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. The slumbering masses : sleep, medicine, and modern American life / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. (A Quadrant book) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ---- (hc : alk. paper) ISBN ---- (pb : alk. paper) . Lifestyles—United States. . Sleepwalking—United States. . Sleep disorders—United States. I. Title. HQ.UW  .'—dc  Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.                    For my parents, Melanie and Robert, who endured many years of my wayward sleep This page intentionally left blank ...