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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

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

Publication Details

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 CE.

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

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#13295
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15561
External URLdangerously-sleepy-overworked-americans-and-the-cult-of-manly-wakefulness

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia