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Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Entry Number	#13295
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/15561
External URL	dangerously-sleepy-overworked-americans-and-the-cult-of-manly-wakefulness

Publication place: Philadelphia