… in the study of disability and untapped opportunities for cross-… medical sociology scholarship,
gaps with regard to disability … of medical sociology and the sociology of disability that could …

… a disability studies sensibility—cultural and structural systems preventing their capacity to
live well. I argue that both disability studies and medical sociology … is futile, produces missed …

… the sociology of the body at the center of disability debates. In exploring the relevance of
sociology to an understanding of disability, … examine two versions of the sociology of the body in …

… Moreover, I suggest that medical sociologists new to research on chronic illness and
disability cannot help but note the relevance and richness of the current literature in disability …

… sociology and chronic illness, leading disability scholars (many of whom were not only
themselves disabled … ‘sociological analyses of disability have been theoretically and methodologi…

… sociological analyses of disability have been theoretically and methodologically inadequate.
The main reason for this is that sociology, … biomedical approach to disability. It is argued that …

… syllabi from sociologists teaching the sociology of disability and a broader set of disability
courses … Sociologists may be missing an opportunity to build a shared history of the field, evoke …

… to mainstream sociology's rejection of such a claim and Disability Studies … Disability Studies
as a "new" field of inquiry. I contrast this with more traditional sociological studies of disability …

… , Zola set the tone in the United States for the disabled scholar-activist. In 1982, he re-counted
in Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability his transformative experience of …