TWO-and-a-half millennia of our understanding of sleep and dreams are covered in this unique and enlightening, albeit lengthy and highly referenced, history of sleep research. Kroker shows how sleep has moved from the domain of religion to dogma to being the subject of scientific study. Sleep research, like history, repeats itself. Kroker reminds us of the oft-forgotten discoveries from the first sleep laboratory at Tuxedo Park in the 1930s, as well as those of pioneer Nathaniel Kleitman, and shows that insights into insomnia were as good then as they are today.
The Sleep of Others
University of Toronto Press