Coveney, Catherine M.; Nerlich, Brigitte; Martin, Paul - In: Social Science & Medicine 68 (2009) 3, pp. 487-495
This paper uses UK media coverage of the sleep drug modafinil to investigate the medicalisation of sleep at a conceptual level. Using metaphorical frame analysis we investigate the conceptual links created in media discourse between sleep and health, and the body and technology in the UK. Using...