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Sleep: Multi-Professional Perspectives

Editat de Andrew Green, Alex Westcombe Ved Varma
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2012
The average human spends one third of their life asleep, yet most people know relatively little about what goes on when their head touches the pillow and their eyes close for the next eight hours. This book looks at the history of sleep, both in literature and in life, and goes on to consider sociological aspects.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849050623
ISBN-10: 1849050627
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 153 x 214 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd

Notă biografică

Andrew Green is a Specialist Occupational Therapist at The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry in Bristol, UK. He has an MSc from the University of Exeter and an MPhil from the University of Southampton. Since 1999, he has been involved in running an innovative group for the cognitive behavioural management of insomnia, and has become increasingly interested in sleep and the behavioural management of sleep disorders. Alex Westcombe is a Clinical Psychologist working for North Bristol NHS Trust. He has worked in a range of physical health settings, including in fatigue, pain and burns services. Ved Varma is a retired Psychologist based in London, UK.

Cuprins

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.