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Article: The cultural biology of sleep. (Medical Anthropology).
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Sleep disorders plague millions of Americans. Western treatments focus on medications, routine setting and other tactics that in some cases can be highly effective. However, recently, anthropologists have looked at sleep from an evolutionary perspective to see whether our modern approach to sleep is aligned with our biology and the answer is a resounding: no. Pre-industrial people sleep in ways that are totally different from our modern sleep habits and this difference lies at the root of all modern sleep disorders. One of the leading proponents of the new anthropology of sleep is Carol M. Worthman of Emory University in Atlanta. Worthman notes that clinical sleep research ...
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