Sleep (eBook, ePUB)

Multi-Professional Perspectives
Redaktion: Green, Andrew; Westcombe, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.

The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways in which sleep can be affected by medication and medical and psychiatric conditions.

This groundbreaking and insightful book will be of great interest to students, academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and anyone else who wishes to discover more about this fascinating topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857002570
• Artikelnr.: 38231508

Autorenporträt

Edited by Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe with Ved Varma

Inhaltsangabe

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.