… No doubt, this emerging sociology of disability had an alien and rather uncomfortable
feel about it for mainstream medical sociologists in Britain: it was angry, politically charged, …

… at the core of medical sociologists’ study of chronic illness and disability. Finally, consideration
… sociology of disability to come into being in mainstream sociology in the twentieth century. …

… of medical sociology scholarship, gaps with regard to disability … of medical sociology and
the sociology of disability that could … We suggest that medical sociologists examining disability …

… , medical sociologists highlight how such accounts overegg a polar dichotomy between
disability studies and medical sociology, … oversocialised understanding of disability, and dismiss …

… studies in the 1980s and 1990s amounted to a head-on challenge to medical sociologists’
claim to sole jurisdiction in any sociology of disability. The existence of a disciplinary ‘divide’ …

… The toolkit of epistemic injustice can help understand how people's experiences of illness
and disability—a chief concern of medical sociologists—are mediated by hierarchies of …

… sociological understandings of what constitutes disability. Current meanings of disability in
both disability studies and medical sociology … In contrast, medical sociologists like Bury and …

… Medical sociologists have critiqued this limited perspective and urged for an empirical … in
the lives of disabled people. As such, Thomas argues, medical sociologists must demonstrate a …

… sociology and disability in more detail and is critical of sociology's lack of interest in disability
… and emancipatory sociology as it has emerged within the British sociological tradition. …

… medical sociology. The author exhibits a much clearer sympathy with those doing disability
research than with medical sociologists… a few favourites among the medical sociologists, their …