Dangerously Sleepy explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation—and masculinization—of wakefulness in the United States.

The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers rebutted Americans’ confidence in the body’s ability to conquer sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep disruption and deprivation. The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. The website can be found at: https://sleepfictions.org/sleep/scalar/index

The protocols in this thoroughly updated edition address key clinical conditions and circumstances likely to be encountered by a hospital nurse caring for older adults. They represent "best practices" for acute care of the elderly as developed by nursing experts around the country as part of the Hartford Foundation's Nurses Improving Care to the Hospitalized Elderly project (NICHE). New to this edition are chapters on evaluating practice guidelines and measuring quality and outcome of care. Although the protocols were developed for acute care, they can be easily modified to work in other practice settings, such as the nursing home or home care.

What do health problems like sleep apnea, diabetes, stroke, and oral cancer have in common? Would you be surprised to learn that they're all likely to be discovered first by your dentist?When most of us think of the dentist, it's in terms of getting that regular cleaning and exam. For some, it's a visit we put off or avoid all together, because of bad past experiences or common phobias. But your dentist is an important member of your healthcare team, not just a glorified tooth polisher. Your mouth is the window to your whole body's health, and your dentist is on the front lines of preventative care in keeping all of you running smoothly. In this comprehensive guide to oral care, written by a dentist for the layperson, you'll learn: * The latest advances in oral care and cosmetic dentistry that can give you the smile of your dreams far more easily than ever before. * Why baby teeth matter, and how proper care now can save you and your child years of expensive treatments later. * The healthcare crisis of sleep apnea; not just among the middle-aged and overweight, but even among children, and what your dentist can do to give you back a good night's sleep. * How poor oral care puts your whole body at risk. * New directions in holistic dentistry that mean less pain AND less medication. * The controversy over silver fillings; what are the options, and what should you choose? * Evidence-based dentistry and what it means to you as an informed consumer.

Co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives--and even our sex lives in this New York Times bestseller. We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, with profound consequences to our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What we need is nothing short of a sleep revolution: only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives. In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power. The result is a sweeping, scientifically rigorous, and deeply personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the new golden age of sleep science that reveals the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health--from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s. In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually-harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important--and elusive--than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.

One of the world's leading experts on bioenergetics unravels the deepest mystery of human physiology: biological energyQwhat it is, how we get it, how we expend it, and most importantly, how we can make more. 6 diagrams.

C. R. Webster saw many forms of substance abuse as a nurse, but when addictions threatened her own son, it was no longer a job; she was his mother. After a shoulder injury dashed his dreams of playing college baseball, Randy lost his desire to live, seeking refuge in all the wrong places. His mother had to sit in the bleachers and watch as he went from job to job, court date to court date, and eventually, freedom to incarceration. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence tells a tragic story about a mother's struggle to save her son and her eventual decision to turn it over to God. A well written, frank, eye opener To The carnage wreaked by substance abuse in her family. If you have dealt first hand with drug or alcohol abuse in your family then From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence will certainly strike a raw chord with you. If you haven't, it will make you kiss your family and thank the Good Lord for sparing you from this horrific war zone. -R.Groves, stewardship team, Independent Bible Church From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence leads you through years of the nightmare darkness that engulfs a family when fighting to save a child from his world of addiction. It is a heart-wrenching story of a mother struggling desperately to hold onto her family, her faith, and her sanity. There is hope in God, The rock that holds in the midst of life's worse storms. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence is a must read for anyone who has been forced down this path. -B. Evans, MITI leader for ten years, member of Long View Baptist Church C. R. Webster is a retired nurse and mother of two. She used her writing to deal with the rage, anger, and guilt she felt when, despite all her efforts, she was unable to save her son from the dark world. The light is there; will he see it?

A critical examination of the rise of wearable EEG monitors. From Fitbits to GPS trackers, wearables promise to help us understand and improve ourselves in quantified ways. We count our steps, track our location, and even monitor our brain waves as we strive to achieve better fitness, clearer direction, or a more focused mind. But why do we rely on wearables to learn about ourselves? In Instrumental Intimacy, Melissa M. Littlefield questions our desire for mechanistic guidance by examining brain-based EEG wearables that promise to improve sleep, relationships, self-knowledge, and learning. Littlefield focuses specifically on EEGs’ transition out of the laboratory and into the hands of consumers. While other brain-imaging technologies (such as MRI, PET, and MEG) are used only in specialized laboratories, human electroencephalography (a.k.a. EEG) is embedded in portable, user-friendly devices. These direct-to-consumer wearables visualize brain activity as accessible data, and many offer the promise of self-optimization. Littlefield’s illuminating book brings the histories of EEG to bear on the contemporary development of EEG wearables via case studies of EEG-based sleep aids, bio-mapping instruments, fashionable surveillance tools, and athletic training devices. The author argues that, over the past century, applied uses of EEG helped to create new states of mind to be monitored and manipulated, as well as discourses about the existence of brain waves and their viability as a tool for brain optimization. By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.