Download or read book Integrative Sleep Medicine written by Valerie Cacho and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep has been found to affect nearly all aspects of health, both individual and societal. Despite this, it has long been neglected in the medical literature until relatively recent times. Different perspectives of sleep are discussed, including historical views of sleep and alternative sleep patterns. The development of sleep as a medical specialty is described as are limitations to the conventional medical approach to sleep. The foundations of a truly integrative approach to sleep are enumerated"--