Sleep
Subtitle: multi-professional perspectives
By: edited by Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe with Ved Varma ; foreword by David Nutt
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers; Jessica Kingsley Pub
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849050623
Subjects: Sleep Disorders; Sleep
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the university of sleep / Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe; title: The science of sleep : what is it, what makes it happen and why do we do it? / Louise Paterson; title: Chronobiology and the timing of sleep / Katharina Wulff; title: Cultures of sleep / Brigitte Steger; title: Medical anthropology and children's sleep : the mismatch between western lifestyles and sleep physiology / Caroline Jones and Helen Ball; title: Beyond death's counterfeit : the sociological aspects of sleep / Robert Meadows; title: A question of balance : the relationship between daily occupation and sleep / Andrew Green; title: Recording and quantifying sleep / Nigel Hudson; title: Broken sleep : sleep disorders / Jane Hicks and Andrew Green; title: Sleep and psychiatry / Dietmar Hank, Jane Hicks, and Sue Wilson; title: Medication and sleep / Sue Wilson; title: Too tired to sleep / Alex Westcombe and Hazel O'Dowd; title: Ambivalent attitudes towards sleep in world religions / Stephen Jacobs; title: That sweet secession : sleep and sleeplessness in western literature / Lee Scrivner; title: Sleeping on it / Andrew Green.