I would like to outline the problem of sleep in a theoretical framework, sort of from ground zero. So we can ask a question: what actually is sleep? Not in terms of medicine or in terms of biology, but in terms of its belonging to our human existence. The answer is not so obvious, because animals also sleep. But in the case of humans (a very specific, anomalous animal), sleep is transformed. And this is not just an elementary biological fact; both sleep and wakefulness have cultural, social, philosophical and political dimensions, in my view
Introduction. Human sleep practices are highly divergent across culture and time (Blunden, Thompson ...
Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people's face...
[eng] Summary Rest in poikilothermic animals is an adaptation of the organism to adjust to the geoph...
The reasons why we sleep have been debated endlessly and the arguments have tended to focus upon one...
Our investigative question is what part of the human psyche is active when we are sleeping. ...
Over the past decade, sociological studies have convincingly demonstrated that sleep is a socially, ...
Sleep, until recently, has been a neglected topic or issue within sociology and the social sciences ...
Sleep is essential to cognitive function and health in humans, yet the ultimate reasons for sleep-i....
This article takes the neglected sociological issue of sleep, and applies the potential insights con...
An overview on the topic of sleep is presented. Two assumed functions of sleep are highlighted: the ...
Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. Ho...
Sleep is something we all ‘do’ on a daily or nightly basis, consuming approximately a third of our l...
Sleeping is accompanied by a physiological narrowing of consciousness, during which the central nerv...
The phenomenological experience of sleep as a cessation of waking activity is misleading. Indeed, it...
Sleep is a basic human need; it is a universal biological process common to all people. Humans spend...
Introduction. Human sleep practices are highly divergent across culture and time (Blunden, Thompson ...
Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people's face...
[eng] Summary Rest in poikilothermic animals is an adaptation of the organism to adjust to the geoph...
The reasons why we sleep have been debated endlessly and the arguments have tended to focus upon one...
Our investigative question is what part of the human psyche is active when we are sleeping. ...
Over the past decade, sociological studies have convincingly demonstrated that sleep is a socially, ...
Sleep, until recently, has been a neglected topic or issue within sociology and the social sciences ...
Sleep is essential to cognitive function and health in humans, yet the ultimate reasons for sleep-i....
This article takes the neglected sociological issue of sleep, and applies the potential insights con...
An overview on the topic of sleep is presented. Two assumed functions of sleep are highlighted: the ...
Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. Ho...
Sleep is something we all ‘do’ on a daily or nightly basis, consuming approximately a third of our l...
Sleeping is accompanied by a physiological narrowing of consciousness, during which the central nerv...
The phenomenological experience of sleep as a cessation of waking activity is misleading. Indeed, it...
Sleep is a basic human need; it is a universal biological process common to all people. Humans spend...
Introduction. Human sleep practices are highly divergent across culture and time (Blunden, Thompson ...
Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people's face...
[eng] Summary Rest in poikilothermic animals is an adaptation of the organism to adjust to the geoph...