{"id":128455,"date":"2026-06-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/?p=128455"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:09:21","slug":"la-marchandisation-du-sommeil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/la-marchandisation-du-sommeil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commodification of Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The attention paid to sleep in modern societies is a relatively recent affair. As psychiatrist and researcher Jean-Arthur Micoulaud points out<\/a>, the world of medicine did not begin to take an interest in it until the 1950s and 60s. It has since discovered that sleep plays a role in regulating the organism as a whole and contributes to the quality of mental health. \u201cTo sleep well means to have cognitive (attention, vigilance, memory, planning etc.) and emotional functions (stress-regulation, adjustment to life situations) that are optimal.\u201d Yet, the quality of sleep is trending downward. In France, for example<\/a>, average sleep time has been falling regularly for several years. Almost half of persons aged 18-75 say they experience sleep disturbances and one in three is said to be affected by insomnia. The subject has thus become a public health issue and a source of personal and collective concern. Sleep is measured. It is subject to contradictory advice (since the obsession with personal performance can lead to the erosion of sleep time). And it is medicalized. In this way, it is becoming an object of study and a source of revenue for an increasing number of economic actors. Camille Perez examines this trend toward the commodification of sleep here. She shows how this growing commodification manifests itself, points to the attendant socio-economic issues, and outlines various possibilities and risks that might ensue for our societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attention paid to sleep in modern societies is a relatively recent affair. As psychiatrist and researcher Jean-Arthur Micoulaud points out, the world of medicine did not begin to take an interest in it until the 1950s and 60s. It has since discovered that sleep plays a role in regulating the organism as a whole … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":128406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1325,180],"tags":[133,212],"keyword":[2712,913,897,932,2635,2682,1274],"class_list":["post-128455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revue-futuribles-en","category-journal-article","tag-economie-et-emploi-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-economy","keyword-sante-en","keyword-modes-de-vie-en","keyword-marche-en","keyword-medicines","keyword-mental-health","keyword-qualite-de-la-vie-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128490,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128455\/revisions\/128490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128455"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=128455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}