What role do history, culture and economics play on our normative conceptions of sleep? How has modern American life shaped the way we define the norms of 'healthy sleep'? Join us for a wide-ranging, thought-provoking discussion with Matthew Wolf-Meyer about his research and book, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life. This episode's guest: MatthewWolf-Meyer PhD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His work focuses on medicine, science, and media in the United States, and draws on history, contemporary experiences, and popular representations of health and illness.work focuses on how medicine, science and media in the U.S. make sense of major modern-era shifts in the expert practices of science, medicine and popular representations of health. His first book, "The Slumbering Masses," offers insights into the complex lived realities of disorderly sleepers, the long history of sleep science and the global impacts of the exportation of American sleep. Website: https://matthewwolfmeyer.com/ Binghamton University: https://www.binghamton.edu/anthropology/faculty/profile.html?id=mwolfmey Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_wolf_meyer Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/slumbering-masses/ More Episodes: