Sleeplessness Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today /

• Main Author: Horne, Jim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Physical anthropology.; Biological psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Critical psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Biological Psychology.; Biological Anthropology.

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. It presents evidence which...