Accounting for sleep loss in early modern England.
early modern
gender
history
humours
sleep
sleep loss
Journal
Interface focus
ISSN: 2042-8898
Titre abrégé: Interface Focus
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101531990
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 Jun 2020
06 Jun 2020
Historique:
accepted:
20
01
2020
entrez:
9
5
2020
pubmed:
10
5
2020
medline:
10
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
How did people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries account for sleep loss? This article answers this question through an in-depth analysis of the life-writings of six early modern women and men that suffered from periodic or persistent episodes of sleep loss. It focuses on the ways in which these health crises were understood to impede the ordinary functions of body and mind, while also revealing how gendered discourses of illness shaped female and male explanations of sleep loss in different ways. The article is the first to identify early modern sleep loss as an acknowledged
Identifiants
pubmed: 32382400
doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0087
pii: rsfs20190087
pmc: PMC7202385
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
20190087Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
I declare I have no competing interests.
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