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By Kenton Kroker. 533 pp., illustrated. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8020-3769-5.

How did the very personal and private experience of sleep and dreaming become such a highly public scientific object with public policy and socioeconomic implications — and at what cost? The fascinating metamorphosis of the field of sleep medicine is explained through the eyes of Kenton Kroker, an astute student of science and technology studies, who follows the changing concepts of sleep and dreaming from the realm of the mystical, magical, supernatural, and religious to the realm of public health and medical treatment.

Early on, sleep was viewed simply as a phenomenon of absence. It was a suspension of existence . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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