Journal Articles
Coveney, K, Hudson, N, Lafuente-Funes, S, Jacxsens, L, Provoost, V (2022)
From scarcity to sisterhood: The framing of egg donation on fertility clinic websites in the UK, Belgium and Spain,
Social Science and Medicine, 296, 114785, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114785.
Coveney, C and Mwale, S (2022)
Travelling with Sugar: Chronicles of a global epidemic,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(1), pp.253-255, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.13376.
Jacxsens, L, Coveney, K, Culley, L, Herbrand, C, Lafuente-Funes, S, Pavone, V, Pennings, G, Weis, C, Hudson, N, Provoost, V (2021)
O-097 The presentation of medical risks and incentives in egg donation: an analysis of Belgian, Spanish and UK fertility clinic websites,
Human Reproduction, 36(Supplement_1), deab125.033, ISSN: 0268-1161. DOI:
10.1093/humrep/deab125.033.
Williams, SJ, Meadows, R, Coveney, K (2021)
Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 1467-9566.13324, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.13324.
Hudson, N, Culley, L, Herbrand, C, Pavone, V, Pennings, G, Provoost, V,
Coveney, C, Funes, SL (2020)
Reframing egg donation in Europe: new regulatory challenges for a shifting landscape,
Health Policy and Technology, ISSN: 2211-8837. DOI:
10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.04.007.
Coveney, C, Faulkner, A, Gabe, J, McNamee, M (2020)
Beyond the orthodox/CAM dichotomy: Exploring therapeutic decision making, reasoning and practice in the therapeutic landscapes of elite sports medicine,
Social Science & Medicine, pp.112905-112905, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112905.
Coveney, C and Bjønness, J (2019)
Making sense of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: taking stock and looking forward,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(4), pp.293-300, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2019.1618025.
Coveney, K, Williams, SJ, Gabe, J (2019)
Enhancement imaginaries: exploring public understandings of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancing drugs,
Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 26(4), pp.319-328, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2019.1593318.
Coveney, K, Williams, SJ, Gabe, J (2019)
Medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, or both? Exploring the medical management of sleeplessness as insomnia,
Sociology of Health and Illness, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.12820.
McNamee, MJ,
Coveney, CM, Faulkner, A, Gabe, J (2018)
Ethics, Evidence Based Sports Medicine, and the Use of Platelet Rich Plasma in the English Premier League,
Health Care Analysis, 26(4), pp.344-361, ISSN: 1065-3058. DOI:
10.1007/s10728-017-0345-7.
Williams, SJ,
Coveney, C, Gabe, J (2017)
The concept of medicalisation reassessed: a response to Joan Busfield,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 39(5), pp.775-780, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.12576.
Faulkner, A, McNamee, M,
Coveney, C, Gabe, J (2017)
Where biomedicalisation and magic meet: Therapeutic innovations of elite sports injury in British professional football and cycling,
Social Science & Medicine, 178, pp.136-143, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.011.
Gabe, J, Williams, SJ,
Coveney, CM (2017)
Prescription hypnotics in the news: A study of UK audiences,
Social Science & Medicine, 174, pp.43-52, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.029.
Gabe, J,
Coveney, CM, Williams, SJ (2016)
Prescriptions and proscriptions: moralising sleep medicines,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 38(4), pp.627-644, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.12383.
Williams, SJ,
Coveney, C, Meadows, R (2015)
‘M‐apping’ sleep? Trends and transformations in the digital age,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 37(7), pp.1039-1054, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.12283.
Gabe, J, Williams, S, Martin, P,
Coveney, C (2015)
Pharmaceuticals and society: Power, promises and prospects,
Social Science & Medicine, 131, pp.193-198, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.031.
Coveney, CM (2014)
Managing sleep and wakefulness in a 24‐hour world,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(1), pp.123-136, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.12046.
Pollock, K, Moore, J,
Coveney, C, Armstrong, S (2013)
Configuring the caller in ambiguous encounters: Volunteer handling of calls to Samaritans emotional support services,
Communication and Medicine, 9(2), pp.113-123, ISSN: 1612-1783. DOI:
10.1558/cam.v9i2.113.
Williams, SJ,
Coveney, CM, Gabe, J (2013)
Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society,
Social Science & Medicine, 79, pp.40-47, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.017.
Coveney, CM, Pollock, K, Armstrong, S, Moore, J (2012)
Callers’ Experiences of Contacting a National Suicide Prevention Helpline,
Crisis, 33(6), pp.313-324, ISSN: 0227-5910. DOI:
10.1027/0227-5910/a000151.
Coveney, C, Gabe, J, Williams, S (2011)
The sociology of cognitive enhancement: Medicalisation and beyond,
Health Sociology Review, 20(4), pp.381-393, ISSN: 1446-1242. DOI:
10.5172/hesr.2011.20.4.381.
Coveney, CM (2011)
Cognitive Enhancement? Exploring Modafinil use in Social Context, pp.203-228, ISSN: 1057-6290. DOI:
10.1108/s1057-6290(2011)0000013013.
Coveney, CM, Nerlich, B, Martin, P (2009)
Modafinil in the media: Metaphors, medicalisation and the body,
Social Science & Medicine, 68(3), pp.487-495, ISSN: 0277-9536. DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.016.
Martin, PA,
Coveney, C, Kraft, A, Brown, N, Bath, P (2006)
Commercial development of stem cell technology: lessons from the past, strategies for the future,
Regenerative Medicine, 1(6), pp.801-807, ISSN: 1746-0751. DOI:
10.2217/17460751.1.6.801.
Chapters
Williams, SJ, Meadows, R, Coveney, C (Accepted for publication) Sleep, Health and Medicine: Sociological Agendas. In Peterson, A (ed) Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, Edward Elgar, pp.NA-NA, ISBN: 978 1 83910 474 9.
Meadows, R, Williams, SJ, Gabe, J,
Coveney, C, Arber, S (2018)
The sociology of sleep. In
Sleep, Health, and Society: From Aetiology to Public Health, pp.171-178, ISBN: 9780198778240. DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198778240.003.0019.
Martin, PA, Pickersgill, M,
Coveney, C, Williams, S (2011) Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: Interrogating the ethics, addressing the issues. In
Augmenting Cognition, pp.179-192, ISBN: 9781439839935.
