Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Sociology of Health and Illness

• Publication date

  2008-09-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01084.xPMID 18444954
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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