Simon Williams
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British sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon J. Williams, FAcSS is a British sociologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Biography Simon Williams completed his doctoral thesis on the sociological dimensions of chronic respiratory illness and disability in 1990 at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Kent in the Centre for Health Services Studies from 1990 to 1992 before moving to a full-time lectureship in Sociology at the University of Warwick in 1992, where he has been ever since, becoming a full Professor of Sociology in 2006 and Emeritus Professor in October 2019.
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Published Works
- Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept (2000) (670)
- The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues (1998) (544)
- Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us? (1995) (388)
- The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis. (2011) (294)
- Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate (1999) (276)
- OPCS Surveys of Disability in Great Britain, Report 1: The Prevalence of Disability Among Adults (Book). (1989) (257)
- Transcending the dualisms: towards a sociology of pain (1995) (244)
- Emotions in social life: critical themes and contemporary issues (1998) (237)
- The Vicissitudes of Embodiment Across the Chronic Illness Trajectory (1996) (149)
- Beyond Meaning, Discourse and the Empirical World: Critical Realist Reflections on Health (2003) (136)
- Medicine and the Body (2003) (124)
- Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)Rational (2001) (123)
- Sleep and society : sociological ventures into the (un)known... (2013) (112)
- Debating biology: sociological reflections on health, medicine and society (2003) (100)
- Modernity and Self‐Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Book). (1992) (95)
- Neuroculture, active ageing and the 'older brain': problems, promises and prospects. (2012) (92)
- Parsons revisited: from the sick role to...? (2005) (89)
- Health as moral performance: ritual, transgression and taboo (1998) (86)
- Medical sociology and the biological body: where are we now and where do we go from here? (2006) (85)
- The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects. (2008) (84)
- Sleep and Health: Sociological reflections on the dormant society (2002) (84)
- Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis. (2006) (79)
- Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life. (2008) (75)
- Consumption and Emotion: The Romantic Ethic Revisited (2002) (68)
- Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas (2000) (67)
- Sociological imperialism and the profession of medicine revisited: where are we now? (2001) (66)
- Style of life and the salience of health: an exploratory study of health related practices in households from differing socio‐economic circumstances (1991) (64)
- The sociology of cognitive enhancement: Medicalisation and beyond (2011) (63)
- Chronic Respiratory Illness (1993) (60)
- Reason, emotion and embodiment: is ‘mental’ health a contradiction in terms? (2000) (60)
- Perspectives on prevention: the views of General Practitioners (1994) (57)
- Bodily Dys-Order: Desire, Excess and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries (1998) (56)
- Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders: a study of UK national newspapers. (2007) (56)
- `Capitalising' on Emotions? Rethinking the Inequalities in Health Debate (1998) (55)
- Medicalization and beyond: the social construction of insomnia and snoring in the news (2008) (49)
- The Politics of Sleep (2011) (46)
- The biosocial: sociological themes and issues (2016) (46)
- The Social Etiquette of Sleep: Some Sociological Reflections and Observations (2007) (46)
- Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism: A Sociological Approach (1995) (45)
- Modernity and the Emotions: Corporeal Reflections on the (IR)Rational (1998) (43)
- Night Terrors (2007) (42)
- Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society. (2013) (42)
- The end of the road? Lay views on a pain-relief clinic. (1996) (40)
- The `Emotional' Body (1996) (39)
- ‘Recalcitrant Bodies’? Children, Cancer and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries (2000) (36)
- 'M-apping' sleep? Trends and transformations in the digital age. (2015) (36)
- Gender, Health and Healing : The Public/Private Divide (2002) (35)
- Introduction: Sleeping Bodies (2008) (34)
- Images of scientific medicine (1992) (34)
- Vulnerable/Dangerous Bodies? The Trials and Tribulations of Sleep (2007) (33)
- ‘Consumed with Sleep? Dormant Bodies in Consumer Culture’ (2004) (32)
- Sleep disruption and domestic violence: exploring the interconnections between mothers and children (2009) (31)
- Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body: a rejoinder to Michael Kelly and David Field (1996) (30)
- It makes you bald: children’s knowledge and beliefs about health and cancer prevention (1996) (29)
- Shakespeare on the German Stage (1998) (29)
- Prescriptions and proscriptions: moralising sleep medicines (2015) (29)
- Beyond medicalization-healthicization? A rejoinder to Hislop and Arber. (2004) (27)
- Breaking the ceremonial order: patients' and doctors' accounts of removal from a general practitioner's list. (2006) (27)
- Pharmaceuticals and society: power, promises and prospects. (2015) (27)
- All change in the NHS - Implications of the NHS reforms for primary care prevention (1993) (24)
- The sociology of sleep (2018) (24)
- Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections: a commentary on Bell and Figert (2012). (2012) (24)
- Emotions and `Sociological Imperialism': A Rejoinder to Craib (1996) (23)
- Neuroscience and medicalisation : sociological reflections on memory, medicine and the brain (2011) (22)
- The spectacle of the past in grand opera (2003) (19)
- The Sociological Significance of Sleep: Progress, Problems and Prospects (2008) (19)
- Neuroscience and subjectivity (2011) (18)
- Embodying and Embedding Children's Sleep: Some Sociological Comments and Observations (2007) (17)
- The concept of medicalisation reassessed: a response to Joan Busfield. (2017) (16)
- Changing perceptions of general practitioner care (1994) (15)
- Pharmaceuticals and society : critical discourses and debates (2009) (15)
- The Sociology of Health and Illness at the Turn of the Century: Back to the Future? (1998) (14)
- Editors’ Introduction: Gender, Sleep and the Life Course (2007) (14)
- The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age (2011) (14)
- Marrying the Social and the Biological? a Rejoinder to Newton (2003) (14)
- Emotions, pain and gender (1998) (13)
- Enhancement imaginaries: exploring public understandings of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancing drugs (2019) (13)
- A history of German theatre (2008) (11)
- Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement: Interrogating the Ethics, Addressing the Issues (2011) (10)
- Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (1994) (10)
- The Neuro-Complex: Some Comments and Convergences (2011) (9)
- Evolving sociological analyses of ‘Pharmaceuticalisation’: a reply to Abraham (2011) (9)
- Risks and benefits may turn out to be finely balanced (2009) (9)
- Knowledge and beliefs about health and cancer prevention: the views of young people (1996) (9)
- The Social Construction of Sleep and Work in the British Print News Media (2008) (9)
- Emotions, cyberspace and the ‘virtual’ body (1998) (9)
- Medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, or both? Exploring the medical management of sleeplessness as insomnia (2018) (8)
- Measuring health status? A review of the Sickness Impact and functional limitations profiles (1996) (8)
- New Developments in Neuroscience and Medical Sociology (2009) (7)
- Why women consent to surgery, even when they don't want to: a qualitative study (2006) (7)
- Prescription hypnotics in the news: A study of UK audiences. (2017) (7)
- Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep (2001) (7)
- German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Idealism, Romanticism, and Realism (1985) (7)
- Arlie Russell Hochschild (1998) (7)
- Managing sleep? The colonization of everyday/night life (2009) (6)
- European actors and the star system in the American theatre, 1752–1870 (1998) (6)
- Ibsen and the theatre 1877-1900 (1994) (6)
- Bioattack or Panic Attack? Critical Reflections on the Ill-logic of Bioterrorism and Biowarfare in Late/Postmodernity (2004) (6)
- The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood (2010) (5)
- EMOTIONS AND 'SOCIOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM' : (1996) (5)
- Boosting brainpower? From the medicalisation of cognition to the pharmaceuticalisation of routine mental life (2012) (5)
- Transgression for What? A Reply to Robert Crawford (1999) (5)
- Is rational choice theory ‘unreasonable’? The neglected emotions (2013) (5)
- From Smart Bombs to Smart Bugs: Thinking the Unthinkable in Medical Sociology and Beyond (2001) (5)
- ‘Liminal’ bodies? : Sleep, death and dying (2005) (5)
- The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration: A rejoinder to Hsu (2014) (5)
- Coronary heart disease prevention in general practice: the practices and views of a national sample of general practitioners (1993) (4)
- Consumer Satisfaction with Primary Care Report to the Department of Health (1995) (4)
- Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself. (2021) (4)
- Childhood bodies: constructionism and beyond (2003) (4)
- Taking Macbeth out of Himself: Davenant, Garrick, Schiller and Verdi (2004) (3)
- National Theaters in the Larger German and Austrian Cities (1981) (3)
- Who are you Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories about Sleep in British Newspapers (2007) (3)
- Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology – By D. Franks (2011) (3)
- Sociological Approaches to Pain (1995) (3)
- The Cambridge encyclopedia of stage actors and acting (2015) (3)
- Introduction : Debating biology (2005) (3)
- Explaining inequalities in health: theoretical, conceptual and methodological agendas (2007) (3)
- Modem medicine and the lay populace: theoretical perspectives and methodological issues (2013) (2)
- Review of Neurosociology: the nexus between neuroscience and social psychology, by Franks, D. (2011) (2)
- Brick Lane and Beyond: An Inquiry into Racial Strife and Violence in Tower Hamlets. (1979) (2)
- The subjective experience and management of symptoms (2004) (2)
- The sociogenesis of emotion (2002) (2)
- Potenziamento della capacità mentale? Dalla medicalizzazione della cognizione alla farmacologizzazione delle routine mental life (Boosting brainpower? From the medicalisation of cognition to the pharmaceuticalisation of routine mental life) (2012) (2)
- Peter Conrad: The Médicalisation of Society (2015) (2)
- Health and medicine in the information age: Castells, informational capitalism and the network society (2012) (2)
- Shakespeare on The German Stage, Volume I: 1586-1914. (1992) (1)
- The consequences of chronic respiratory illness : a sociological study. (1990) (1)
- 11. Theater and Degeneration: Subversion and Sexuality (1985) (1)
- Wagner's Das LiebesverbotFrom Shakespeare to the Well-Made Play (1985) (1)
- The 'neurosociology' of emotion? Progress, problems and prospects (2009) (1)
- Our Hard Days' Nights (2011) (1)
- EMOTIONS AND HEALTH (1998) (1)
- Opera and modes of theatrical production (2012) (1)
- Shakespeare at the Burgtheater: From Heinrich Anschütz to Josef Kainz (1982) (1)
- Introduction: Why Emotions, Why Now? (2001) (1)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: Early music-drama: the isolated hero (2004) (0)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: Heroism, tragedy, and the Ring (2004) (0)
- Wagner and the early nineteenth-century theatre (2004) (0)
- Rome Awards: The writing and reception of history in the tenth century: an investigation of Liudprand of Cremona's Antapodosis (2012) (0)
- Experiencing Emotions: The Lived Body (2001) (0)
- Practical problems of daily life (2004) (0)
- Afterword: In Search of Sleep…Or…The Politics of Sleep Revisited (2011) (0)
- THE ‘MEDIATION’ OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE (1998) (0)
- From Wolfram to Wagner and Beyond: Sexuality, Freedom, and the Avoidance of Tragedy in Parsifal (2015) (0)
- Der Rosenkavalier and the Idea of Habsburg Austria (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Emotions and the Body : Raising the Issues for Medical Sociology (2014) (0)
- Sir (Albert) Noel Campbell Macklin (1886–1946), racing motor car and warship manufacturer (2013) (0)
- Coronary Heart Disease Prevention: The Role of the General Practitioner (October 1990 - September 1992)Final report of a national study (1992) (0)
- Robert Carsen’s Production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann An Exercise in Theatrical Self-Reflection (2010) (0)
- Life before the mast (2007) (0)
- Nerds of Colors Assemble: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (2012) (0)
- Bod% O& Society (1995) (0)
- The Director in the German Theater: Harmony, Spectacle and Ensemble (1983) (0)
- Woman and creativity : a study of selected plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Wedekind and Shaw. (1973) (0)
- EMOTIONS AND THE BODY THROUGH THE LIFE-COURSE (1998) (0)
- The thing is, I knew it was coming - this doozy of a group (2015) (0)
- SEXUALITY, INTIMACY AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (1998) (0)
- Restless Times: Wired Awake in Fast Capitalism? (2011) (0)
- The tragic actor and Shakespeare (2002) (0)
- Review of The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research by Kroker, K. (2009) (0)
- Desire, Excess and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- ‘Manufactured’ Emotions?: The ‘(Un)Managed Heart’ Revisited (2001) (0)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: Bibliography (2004) (0)
- Race Relations in Education Theory: A Study Based on Observations Made in Two Schools. (1974) (0)
- Deborah Lupton, The Emotional Self: A Sociocultural Exploration , London: Sage, 1998, £40.00 (£13.99 pbk), vii+208 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-5602-6). (1999) (0)
- Keeping the customers happy: consumer satisfaction (1991) (0)
- Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Symphony and the European Reception of Shakespeare (2008) (0)
- Transgression and Taboo: The ‘Sleep of Reason’ and the Politics of Release? (2011) (0)
- Social and family life (1993) (0)
- The "Great Guest" Arrives: Early German "Hamlets" (1986) (0)
- Transformations and Translations: The Laboratory, the Clinic and the Future of Sleep… (2011) (0)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: Introduction (2004) (0)
- Modernity and its Discontents: Reason versus Emotion? (2001) (0)
- John Stuart Hindmarsh (1907–1938), test pilot and racing driver, (2013) (0)
- Women and creativity : a study of selected plays (1973) (0)
- Gender and the Transformation of Intimacy: A ‘Stalled Revolution’? (2001) (0)
- Chapter 3. Romeo and Juliet in Germany: From the English actors to Goethe (2017) (0)
- Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914 (1991) (0)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: Wagner's heroism on stage (2004) (0)
- Chronic obstructive airways disease (2004) (0)
- Vigilance and Virtue: Sleep, Citizenship and the Politics of Blame (2011) (0)
- Biology versus Society (2001) (0)
- Romantic Opera and the Virtuoso (2011) (0)
- (In)equality and (In)justice: The Rights and Wrongs of Sleep (2011) (0)
- Wagner and the Romantic Hero: The last music-dramas: toward the messiah (2004) (0)
- Reading between the lines : Arabic fiction in Israel after 1967 (2014) (0)
- Chronic obstructive airways disease: Clinical nature and epidemiology (1993) (0)
- Problems of work and income (1993) (0)
- Presenting whilst retreating in the age of the corporate lanyard (2020) (0)
- CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EMOTIONS (1998) (0)
- Biomedicine, holistic health and the emotionally reflexive body in "late" modernity (1997) (0)
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