Irving Kenneth Zola
Irving Kenneth Zola ( 1935 - 1994 ) was an American activist and author in the field of medical sociology and the disability movement . He was a founding member of the Society of Disability Studies and the first editor of the Disability Studies Quarterly . He was also a founding member and advisor to the Boston Self-Help Center.
His best-known book, first published in 1982, is Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability .
The Dr. The Irving Kenneth Zola Collection, a collection containing most of Zola's works, is located in the Samuel Gridley Howe Library at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Zola had taught at Brandeis University since 1963.
Fonts (selection)
As an author
- "Medicine as an institution of social control" in: Sociological Review 1972: 4: 487-504.
- Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability , 1982, reissued : Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 1592132448
- Socio-medical inquiries: recollections, reflections, and reconsiderations , Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
As editor
- Ordinary lives: voices of disability & disease, Cambridge [Mass.]: Apple-wood Books, 1982
See also
Web links
- Irving Zola homepage, now run by his wife Judy Norsigian
- Obituary in the New York Times, accessed January 17, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zola, Irving Kenneth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American activist and writer on medical sociology and the disability movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |