Journal Article

Coveney, Catherine, Williams, Simon J. and Gabe, Jonathan (2019) Enhancement imaginaries : exploring public understandings of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancing drugs. Drugs : Education, Prevention and Policy, 26 (4). pp. 319-328. doi:10.1080/09687637.2019.1593318

Coveney, Catherine, Williams, Simon J. and Gabe, Jonathan (2019) Medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation or both? Exploring the medical management of sleeplessness as insomnia. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41 (2). pp. 266-284. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12820

Williams, Simon J., Coveney, Catherine and Gabe, Jonathan (2017) The concept of medicalisation reassessed : a response to Busfield. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39 (5). pp. 775-780. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12576

Gabe, Jonathan, Williams, Simon J. and Coveney, Catherine (2017) Prescription hypnotics in the news : a study of UK audiences. Social Science and Medicine, 174 . pp. 43-52. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.029

Meloni, Maurizio, Williams, Simon J. and Martin, Paul (2016) The biosocial : sociological themes and issues. The Sociological Review Monographs, 64 (1). pp. 7-25. doi:10.1002/2059-7932.12010

Gabe, Jonathan, Coveney, Catherine and Williams, Simon J. (2015) Prescriptions and proscriptions : moralising sleep medicines. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38 (4). pp. 627-644. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12383

Williams, Simon J., Coveney, Catherine and Meadows, Robert (2015) 'M-apping’ sleep? Trends and transformations in the digital age. Sociology of Health & Illness, 37 (7). pp. 1039-1054. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12283

Williams, Simon J., Coveney, Catherine and Gabe, Jonathan (2013) Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 79 . pp. 40-47. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.017

Williams, Simon J., Higgs, Paul and Katz, Stephen (2012) Neuroculture, active ageing and the ‘older brain’ : problems, promises and prospects. Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.34 (No.1). pp. 64-78. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01364.x

Williams, Simon J., Gabe, Jonathan and Martin, Paul (2012) Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections : a commentary on Bell and Figert (2012). Social Science & Medicine, Volume 75 (Number 12). pp. 2129-2130. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.006

Coveney, Catherine, Gabe, Jonathan and Williams, Simon J. (2011) The sociology of cognitive enhancement : medicalisation and beyond. Health Sociology Review, Vol.20 (No.4). pp. 381-393. doi:10.5172/hesr.2011.20.4.381

Williams, Simon J., Martin, Paul and Gabe, Jonathan (2011) The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis. Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.33 (No.5). pp. 710-725. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01320.x

Humphreys, C., Lowe, Pam and Williams, Simon J. (2009) Sleep disruption and domestic violence: exploring the interconnections between mothers and children. Child & Family Social Work, Vol.14 (No.1). pp. 6-14. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2008.00575.x

Williams, Simon J., Gabe, Jonathan and Davis, Peter (2008) The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects. Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.30 (No.6). pp. 813-824. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01123.x

Boden, Sharon, Williams, Simon J., Seale, Clive, Lowe, Pam and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2008) The social construction of sleep and work in the British print news media. Sociology - The Journal of the British Sociological Association, Vol.42 (No.3). pp. 541-558. doi:10.1177/0038038508088839

Williams, Simon J., Sealey, Clive, Boden, Sharon, Lowe, Pam and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2008) Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life. Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.30 (No.6). pp. 839-855. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01084.x

Williams, Simon J. (2008) The sociological significance of sleep : progress, problems and prospects. Sociology Compass, Vol.2 (No.2). pp. 639-653. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00088.x

Williams, Simon J. and Crossley, Nick (2008) Introduction: sleeping bodies. Body & Society, Vol.14 (No.4). pp. 1-13. doi:10.1177/1357034X08096892

Williams, Simon J., Seale, Clive, Boden, Sharon, Lowe, Pam and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2008) Medicalization and beyond: the social construction of insomnia and snoring in the news. Health, Vol.12 (No.2). pp. 251-268. doi:10.1177/1363459307086846

Williams, Simon J., Lowe, Pam and Griffiths, Frances (2007) Embodying and embedding children's sleep : some sociological comments and observations. Sociological Research Online, Vol.12 (No.5). Article: 6. doi:10.5153/sro.1466

Seale, Clive, Boden, Sharon, Williams, Simon J., Lowe, Pam and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2007) Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders : a study of UK national newspapers. Social Science & Medicine, Vol.65 (No.3). pp. 418-430. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.035

Lowe, Pam, Humphreys, Cathy and Williams, Simon J. (2007) Night terrors: women's experiences of (not) sleeping where there is domestic violence. Violence against Women, Vol.13 (No.6). pp. 549-561. doi:10.1177/1077801207301556

Williams, Simon J. (2007) Vulnerable/dangerous bodies? The trials and tribulations of sleep. Sociological Review, Vol.55 (Suppl.1). pp. 142-155. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00698.x

Williams, Simon J. (2007) The social etiquette of sleep: some sociological reflections and observations. Sociology, Vol.41 (No.2). pp. 313-328. doi:10.1177/0038038507074977

Dixon-Woods, Mary, Williams, Simon J., Jackson, Clare J, Akkad, Andrea, Kenyon, Sara and Habiba, Marwan (2006) Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 62 (11). pp. 2742-2753. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.006

Boden, Sharon and Williams, Simon J. (2002) Consumption and emotion : the romantic ethic revisited. Sociology - The Journal of the British Sociological Association, 36 (3). pp. 493-512. doi:10.1177/0038038502036003001

Book Item

Meadows, Robert, Williams, Simon J., Gabe, Jonathan, Coveney, Catherine and Arber, Sara (2018) The sociology of sleep. In: Cappuccio, Francesco and Miller, Michelle A. and Lockley, Steven W. and Rajaratnam, S. M. W. , (eds.) Sleep, Health and Society : from aetiology to public health (2nd edition). From aetiology to public health . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198778240

Williams, Simon J., Katz, Stephen and Martin, Paul (2011) Neuroscience and medicalisation : sociological reflections on memory, medicine and the brain. In: Pickersgill, Martyn and Van Keulen, Ira, (eds.) Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences. Advances in Medical Sociology (No.13). Bingley: Emerald, pp. 231-254. ISBN 9781848558809

Martin, Paul A., Pickersgill, Martin, Coveney, Catherine and Williams, Simon J. (2011) Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement : interrogating the ethics, addressing the issues. In: Segev, Idan and Markram, Henry, (eds.) Augmenting cognition. Lausanne: EPFL Press. ISBN 9782940222582

Williams, Simon J. (2010) The biopolitics of chronic illness : biology, power and personhood. In: Scambler, Graham and Scambler, Sasha, (eds.) New directions in the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions : assaults on the lifeworld. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 205-224. ISBN 9780230222700

Williams, Simon J. (2010) New developments in neuroscience and medical sociology. In: Cockerham, William C., (ed.) The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology. Blackwell companions to sociology . Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 530-551. ISBN 9781405188685

Williams, Simon J., Meadows, R. and Arber, S. (2010) The sociology of sleep. In: Cappuccio, Francesco and Miller, Michelle A. and Lockley, Steven W., (eds.) Sleep, health, and society : from aetiology to public health. Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 275-299. ISBN 9780199566594

Hancock, Philip, Williams, Simon J. and Boden, Sharon (2009) Managing sleep? The colonization of everyday/night life. In: Hancock, Philip and Tyler, Melissa, (eds.) The Management of Everyday Life. The Palgrave Critical Management Studies Series . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230524798

Williams, Simon J. (2009) The 'neurosociology' of emotion? Progress, problems and prospects. In: Hopkins, Debra and Kleres, Jochen and Flam, Helena and Kuzmics, Helmut, (eds.) Theorizing emotions : sociological explorations and applications. Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 245-268. ISBN 9783593389721

Book

Williams, Simon J. (2011) The politics of sleep : governing (un)consciousness in the late modern age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 9780230223660

Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961- and Gabe, Jonathan and Davis, Peter, eds. (2009) Pharmaceuticals and society : critical discourses and debates. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.. ISBN 9781405190848

Journal Item

Gabe, Jonathan, Williams, Simon J., Martin, Paul and Coveney, Catherine (2015) Pharmaceuticals and society : power, promises and prospects. Social Science & Medicine, 131 . pp. 193-198. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.031

Williams, Simon J., Martin, P. A. and Gabe, Jonathan (2011) Evolving sociological analyses of ‘pharmaceuticalisation’ : a reply to Abraham. Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.33 (No.5). pp. 729-730. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01396.x

Williams, Simon J. and Martin, Paul (2009) Risks and benefits may turn out to be finely balanced. Nature, Vol.457 (No.7229). p. 532. doi:10.1038/457532a

Arber, Sara, Hislop, Jenny and Williams, Simon J. (2007) Editor's introduction: gender, sleep and the life course. Sociological Research Online, Vol.12 (No.5). doi:10.5153/sro.1628

Dataset

Gabe, Jonathan, Williams, Simon J. and Coveney, Catherine (2015) The pharmaceuticalisation of sleep and wakefulness : a social scientific investigation of stakeholder interests, policies and practices. [Dataset]

Book Review

Williams, Simon J. (2011) Review of Neurosociology: the nexus between neuroscience and social psychology, by Franks, D. British Journal of Sociology, Vol.62 (No.4). pp. 744-745. ISSN 0007-1315

Williams, Simon J. (2009) Review of The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research by Kroker, K. Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.31 (No.1). pp. 152-153. ISSN 0141-9889