THE SIESTA AND THE MIDNIGHT SUN: HOW WE MEASURE AND EXPERIENCE TIME

Book ID/图书代码： 11701210B37993

English Summary/英文概要： Now that humanity has spread right to the Earth’s poles and adopted a 24-hour business day, our internal clocks struggle against our urban schedules. Along with local languages and beliefs, the rituals surrounding daily rhythms are losing their rich global diversity and succumbing to a kind of circadian imperialism.

Meanwhile, the health implications are troubling. The Exxon Valdez oil spill, Three Mile Island, the Bophal chemical plant explosion and Chernobyl disasters were all attributed to human error and all happened on the night shift. This is the cost of ignoring our circadian rhythms.

Jessa Gamble travels the planet matching her timetable to the rhythms of each new country and culture, interviewing researchers, professional athletes, psychiatrists, NASA officials, anthropologists and historians in an attempt to answer an essential question: do we want to construct our own artificial timetables or find a new connection with the body’s internal one?

Foreword by Jay Ingram
Introduction
Chapter 1: Life on a rotating planet
Chapter 2: Human biology and circadian rhythms
Chapter 3: Psychology in the mix
Chapter 4: Daily rhythms in times past
Chapter 5: Modern culture and circadian imperialism
Chapter 6: Manipulation of nature’s clock
Chapter 7: The future of our rhythms

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人是否真能打破晝夜的劃分，創造不同的生理時鐘？！

現代人對於時間的運用已大不如前，日出而作，日落而息的規律似乎不再是常規，為了講求效率及競爭力，24小時的工作時間已司空見慣，有人白天工作，晚上休息，有人則完全相反，看來人的生理時鐘似乎可以隨意調整？！但也造成不少重大危安事件，例如：阿拉斯加港灣漏油事件(The Exxon Valdez oil spill)、三哩島核泄漏事故(Three Mile Island)、博帕爾氰化物洩漏事件(Bophal chemical plant explosion)等都是人為因素所造成的，而且都是發生在晚上的作業時間！
生理時鐘不規律影響的或許不只是個人健康，更有可能影響周遭人的生命安危！作者將在本書探訪全球各地，訪問各領域的專家及整理各國不同的時間運作文化，試圖為我們解答一個問題：「人是否可能超越自己的生理結構，創造自己的生理時間表？」(Vincent)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Jessa Gamble，為獲獎的科學類記者，來自英國牛津，目前居住在加拿大離北極圈不遠的地方。被稱為加拿大科學新聲的她，在2007年以親身經歷方式報導北極氣候觀測站的生活而榮獲加拿大科學作家協會最佳社會科學報導獎。

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