Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back In: Reflections on a Past, Present, and Future "Medical Sociology"

1991/03/01 by Irving Kenneth Zola · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · Medicine · #Diversity and Career in Medicine #Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices #Sex and Gender in Healthcare

paper · doi:10.2307/2136796

Abstract

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.

Citations

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