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Beyond eight hours rest: sleep, capitalism, and the biological body

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  1. Emerging in its current formulation in 1984 with “chronic Epstein–Barr syndrome,” the condition known chronic fatigue syndrome was established via a case definition in 1988, but many argue finds an antecedent in neurasthenia, which emerged in the late nineteenth century, industrializing United States, coined by physician George Miller Beard.

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Rogers, E.L. Beyond eight hours rest: sleep, capitalism, and the biological body. Dialect Anthropol 40, 305–318 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9433-6

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