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Sleeplessness critically appraises how much sleep we really need and what it is for, together with more reassuring perspectives on the beliefs concerning our apparent lack of sleep and its consequences. Together, these also provide further insights into insomnia, both for the individual and for that ‘societal insomnia’, otherwise seen as sleep debt.
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Horne, J. (2016). Overview. In: Sleeplessness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30572-1_14
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