Biomedical subjects
I K Zola
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The social construct of suffering.
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Bringing our bodies and ourselves back in: reflections on a past, present, and future "medical sociology".
This paper is a revision of an address given upon receipt of the Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Medical Sociology. It was presented on August 14, 1990 to The Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association during its annual meetings, held in Washington, DC. Herein I reflect on the structured silence of personal bodily experience and on the unfinished paradigmatic challenge of feminism as a way of leading to a new praxis in medical sociology.
The 39th annual John Stanley Coulter lecture. Aging, disability and the home-care revolution.
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Toward the necessary universalizing of a disability policy.
Issues confronting people with disabilities do not result solely from physical or mental impairment, but from the fit between impairments and practically every feature of the social, economic, physical, and political environment. Changes in housing, transportation, and employment policies would augment the quality of daily living for those with disabilities today and in the future. With the entire population facing chronic illness and activity limitations, a universal approach to disability is virtually required, rather than policies focusing exclusively on a person's special needs. The absence of such a universal perspective will lead to the expansion and perpetuation of the segregated and unequal society visible at present.
Helping one another: a speculative history of the self-help movement.
The Independent Living Movement represents a direct challenge to current notions of rehabilitation (see the article by Gerben DeJong in this issue). It is a unique challenge, spearheaded not by new technical advances but by a new social awareness, and not from within by medical personnel but from without by lay groups. In another sense, however, it is but the latest evolution of an old theme in American life--the notion of self-help. This paper traces the history of self-help, to illuminate the problems and prospects of the Independent Living Movement.
In the name of health and illness: on some socio-political consequences of medical influence.
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