Irving Zola
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irving Kenneth Zola was an American activist and writer in medical sociology and disability rights. Early life and education Zola came from a working class Jewish family. His mother was of Polish origin and his father Russian, both arriving in the US as immigrants as young children. He graduated from Boston Latin School and went on to enroll at Harvard College in 1956, and four years later went on to receive his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University Department of Social Relations.
Irving Zola's Published Works
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Published Works
- Medicine as an Institution of Social Control (1972) (1420)
- Culture and symptoms--an analysis of patients' presenting complaints. (1966) (755)
- Pathways to the doctor-from person to patient. (1973) (548)
- Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability (1982) (280)
- Toward the necessary universalizing of a disability policy. (1989) (227)
- Self, identity and the naming question: reflections on the language of disability. (1993) (211)
- Living With Chronic Illness: The Experience of Patients and Their Families (1988) (192)
- Bringing our bodies and ourselves back in: reflections on a past, present, and future "medical sociology". (1991) (153)
- Multiculturalism, chronic illness, and disability. (1993) (148)
- THE QUANTITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN MEDICAL PATIENTS. SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE DECISION TO SEEK MEDICAL AID. (1964) (129)
- In the name of health and illness: on some socio-political consequences of medical influence. (1975) (113)
- Disability Statistics, What We Count and What It Tells Us (1993) (106)
- Origins of crime : a new evaluation of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study (1959) (104)
- ON GOING TO SEE THE DOCTOR, THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PATIENT TO THE DECISION TO SEEK MEDICAL AID. A SELECTIVE REVIEW. (1963) (103)
- Observations on Gambling in a Lower-Class Setting (1963) (100)
- Structural Constraints in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Case of Non-Compliance (1981) (81)
- Poverty and health : a sociological analysis (1970) (78)
- Studying the Decision to See a Doctor (1972) (74)
- Independent Living for Physically Disabled People (2001) (69)
- Feelings About Age Among Older People (1962) (56)
- Role Theory and Illness: A Sociological Perspective. (1967) (51)
- Socio-Medical Inquiries: Recollections, Reflections and Reconsiderations (1983) (47)
- Gambling in Sweden. (1965) (42)
- The concept of trouble and sources of medical assistance-to whom one can turn, with what and why. (1972) (42)
- Denial of emotional needs to people with handicaps. (1982) (37)
- “ANY DISTINGUISHING FEATURES?”–THE PORTRAYAL OF DISABILITY IN THE CRIME-MYSTERY GENRE* (1987) (35)
- Social and cultural disincentives to independent living. (1982) (35)
- Origins of Crime: A New Evaluation Of The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. (1960) (34)
- Communication barriers between 'the able-bodied' and 'the handicapped'. (1981) (34)
- PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION, DIAGNOSIS, AND PATIENT CARE: THE INTERPLAY OF PATIENT, PHYSICIAN AND CLINIC ORGANIZATION. (1963) (27)
- The Doctor and His Patient—A Sociological Interpretation (1964) (24)
- The politicization of the self-help movement. (1987) (19)
- Aging and Disability: Toward a Unified Agenda (1989) (17)
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982) (1983) (14)
- Poverty and Health: A Sociological Analysis. (1973) (14)
- VIEWS, PROBLEMS, AND POTENTIALITIES OF THE CLINIC (1964) (13)
- Helping one another: a speculative history of the self-help movement. (1979) (12)
- The 39th annual John Stanley Coulter lecture. Aging, disability and the home-care revolution. (1990) (11)
- Organizational issues in the delivery of health services : a selection of articles from the Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly (1974) (10)
- After Everyone Can Pay For Medical Care: Some Perspectives on Future Treatment and Practice (1964) (10)
- Ordinary lives : voices of disability & disease (1982) (9)
- The social construct of suffering. (1992) (9)
- Chronic Illness and Disability (1983) (9)
- The medicalizing of society : medicine as an institution of social control (1972) (9)
- Studying the decision to see a doctor. Review, critique, corrective. (1972) (9)
- The silent world of doctors and patients: by Jay Katz. The Free Press, New York, 1984. 263 pp. $15.95 (1985) (8)
- Thoughts on improving compliance in elderly arthritics. (1986) (7)
- Shifting boundaries: Doing social science in the 1990s—A personal odyssey (1995) (5)
- Work perceptions and their implications for professional identity: an exploratory analysis of public health nurses. (1968) (5)
- Constructing a canon? (1992) (4)
- The problems and prospects of mutual aid groups. (1972) (4)
- Illness Behaviour — A Political Analysis (1986) (2)
- In the Active Voice: A Reflective Review Essay on Three Books (1993) (2)
- A life together—The distribution of attitudes around the disabled: by Tim Dartington, Eric Miller and Geraldine Gwynne. Tavistock, London, 1981. 147 pp. $12.95 (paper) $7.95 (1983) (2)
- III. Social Differences in Physical Health (1975) (1)
- The fix we are in (1975) (1)
- Heart attack: by Una Maclean, Granada, London. 142 pp., £3.95 (1982) (1)
- On the problems of professing (1973) (1)
- The hidden minority—A profile of handicapped Americans by . Little, Brown, Boston. MA. 1979. 213 pp. $9.95 (1981) (1)
- ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained’: A reflective commentary on the Symposium (1987) (1)
- A Story Difficult to Hear & Tell. (1979) (0)
- The Body and Society (Book). (1985) (0)
- Factors which determine the seeking of health care. (1968) (0)
- Is it all right to be sad? (1991) (0)
- THE UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY. By Arlie Russell Hochschild. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973. 193 pp (1974) (0)
- Disability studies quarterly : DSQ (1985) (0)
- Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Cans Nursery (1994) (0)
- Book reviews (1986) (0)
- Books in review (1981) (0)
- Book reviews (1983) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- The disability and chronic disease quarterly (1984) (0)
- Issues and suggestions in the study of health and illness behavior : a consultant's report (1972) (0)
- Reconstructing Geneticization : a Research Manifesto (2003) (0)
- Heartsounds: by Martha Weinman Lear. Simon & Schuster, NY, 1980. 501 pp., $3.50 (1982) (0)
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