Matthew Walker's 2017 book on sleep science — arguing that insufficient sleep causes cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, and obesity — the book that made sleep a mainstream health priority but which has been criticized by sleep researchers for overstating evidence.
Creates the mainstream sleep health argument — Why We Sleep's combination of alarming statistics and accessible prose made sleep deprivation a major public health concern in ways that decades of academic sleep research had not achieved; its success was so complete that even critics acknowledged it changed public behavior.
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