February/1999
| What makes
snoring funny? Perhaps it's the preposterous noises: the sawing and rasping and snorting.
Maybe it's the indignity of someone unknowingly betrayed by his or her own body. The
tormented, restless listener also commands our sympathy. We feel smugly superior to the
hapless snorer who, on waking, denies vigorously what we know to be true. But snoring often is no joke, as authors of this month's books attest. Raucous snoring followed by silence and then a gasp may signal a potentially life- threatening sleep-related breathing disorder, obstructive sleep apnea. Excessive sleepiness is its most common daytime symptom. Some of this month's books were written by patients with obstructive sleep apnea, one by a patient's spouse; several were co-authored with physicians who treat the disorder. Some of these writers even use humorous anecdotes about snoring to make their points, a strategy that yields serious yet entertaining reading. All of these books are accurate and up-to-date, and all cover essentially the same ground. They differ in depth, style, and tone, however. The reviews here focus on their distinctive features. |
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NO MORE SNORING Victor Hoffstein, MD, and Shirley Linde, PhD |
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| SNORING from A to ZZZZ Derek S. Lipman, MD |
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PHANTOM
OF THE NIGHT T. Scott Johnson, MD, and Jerry Halberstadt |
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| SNORING
AND SLEEP APNEA: PERSONAL AND FAMILY GUIDE TO DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT Ralph Pascualy, MD, and Sally W. Soest |
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STOP
THE SNORING! Ralph Schoenstein |
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| THE
POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB Charles Dickens |
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