Sleep

This multi-disciplinary book offers an unprecedented range of contributions relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume. The science of sleep and its sociological and cultural aspects are explored, as are sleep disorders, the importance of sleep for daytime performance and the ways in which sleep is affected by medical and psychiatric conditions.

Foreword by David Nutt FMedSci, Professor of Neuropyschopharmacology, Imperial College London, UK. Preface. 1. Introduction: The University of Sleep Andrew Green, Specialist Occupational Therapist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Bristol, UK and Alex Westcombe, CFS/ME Service, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK. 2. The Science of Sleep: What is It, What Makes It Happen and Why Do We Do It? Louise M. Paterson, Neuropyschopharmacology Unit, Imperial College London, UK. 3. Chronobiology: Biological Rhythms that Influence Sleep. Katharina Wulff, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, UK. 4. Cultures of Sleep. Brigitte Steger, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. 5. Medical Anthropology and Children's Sleep: The Mismatch Between Western Lifestyles and Sleep Physiology. Caroline H. D. Jones, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK and Helen L. Ball, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK. 6. Beyond 'Death's Counterfeit': The Sociological Aspects of Sleep. Robert Meadows, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK. 7. A Question of Balance: The Relationship Between Daily Occupation and Sleep. Andrew Green, Specialist Occupational Therapist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Bristol, UK. 8. Recording and Quantifying Sleep. Nigel Hudson, Department of Neurophysiology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK. 9. Broken Sleep: Sleep Disorders. Jane Hicks, Consultant Psychiatrist, New Horizons Mother and Baby Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK and Andrew Green, Specialist Occupational Therapist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Bristol, UK. 10. Sleep and Psychiatry. Dietmar Hank, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Bristol, UK, Jane Hicks, Consultant Psychiatrist, New Horizons Mother and Baby Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK and Sue Wilson, Psychopharmacology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. 11. Medication and Sleep. Sue Wilson, Psychopharmacology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. 12. Too Tired to Sleep. Alex Westcombe and Hazel O'Dowd , CFS/ME Service, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK. 13. Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Sleep in World Religions. Stephen Jacobs, University of Wolverhampton, UK. 14. That Sweet Secession: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Western Literature. Lee Scrivner, Lecturer in Humanities, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey. 15. Sleeping On It. Andrew Green, Specialist Occupational Therapist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Bristol, UK. Glossary. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.