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Article: The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep Research

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The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep Research by Kenton Kroker Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 505 pp.

This is an ambitious attempt to trace the history of sleep research, from the philosophers and theologians starting in Greco-Roman times, to the present-day research of psychologists, neurophysiologists, and psychoanalysts, including experimentalists in the fields of sleep, dreaming, and related medical disorders.

Kroker begins his book by asking, "Why are thousands of people having their sleep observed in a laboratory tonight?" Are these people ill and therefore "patients," or are they sleeping in special laboratories observed by medical attendants to diagnose ...

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