Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness /

Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness / Alan Derickson.

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This book explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. The author, a health and labor historian, charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation - and masculinization - of wakefulness in the United States.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Derickson, Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer.
Subjects:
Hours of labor > United States > History.
Shift systems > United States > History.
Men > Employment > United States.
Men > United States > Attitudes.
Sleep deprivation > Health aspects > United States.
Sleep deprivation > Social aspects > United States.
Hours of labor.
Men > Attitudes.
Men > Employment.
Shift systems.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: HD5124 .D36 2014
HD5124 .D36 2014 Available

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