Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

By: Kenneth Miller

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Synopsis: &‘Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.&’ Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one steps leading to the mouth of Mammoth Cave. They are about to embark on one of the most intrepid and bizarre experiments in medical history, one which will change our understanding of sleep forever. Undisturbed by natural light, they will investigate what happens when you overturn one of the fundamental rhythms of the human body. Together, they enter the darkness. When Kleitman first arrived in New York, a penniless twenty-year-old refugee, few would have guessed that in just a few decades he would revolutionise the field of sleep science. In Mapping the Darkness, Kenneth Miller weaves science and history to tell the story of the outsider scientists who took sleep science from the fringes to a mainstream obsession. Reliving the spectacular experiments, technological innovation, imaginative leaps and single-minded commitment of these early pioneers, Miller provides a tantalising glimpse into the most mysterious third of our lives.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 432 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780861545179
Publisher:: Oneworld Publications
Date of Addition:: 08/12/24
Copyrighted By:: AAAS
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Technology, Psychology, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.