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Sleeplessness : Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today by Jim Horne is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sleeplessness : Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today about?
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 suggests that sleep debt has not in fact worsened to any marked extent over the last hundred or so years, by looking back at some historical writings on sleeplessness and integrating the findings with
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jim Horne
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319305721
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Anthropology, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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