575 - Section on Medical Sociology Invited Session. Bringing Our Bodies and Our Selves Back In: Irving Kenneth Zola’s Continuing Influence on Medical Sociology and Disability Studies (co-sponsored with Section on Disability and Society)

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Twenty years after his death, we celebrate some of the many contributions of Irving Kenneth Zola that enriched disability studies and medical sociology. Cross-cutting themes include speaking with the voice of personal bodily experience and reclaiming humanity and personhood in multiple social contexts, including the clinical encounter. We consider also our collective response to unfinished paradigmatic challenges he outlined, stemming from feminist and disability rights agendas and from global imperatives associated with aging populations.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizers

• Nancy G. Kutner, Emory University

• Robyn Lewis Brown, DePaul University

Presiders

• Nancy G. Kutner, Emory University

• Robyn Lewis Brown, DePaul University

Panelists

• Fred Hafferty, Mayo Clinic

• Susan E. Bell, Bowdoin College

• Carol Gill, University of Illinois-Chicago