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Name
  
Irving Zola


Role
  
Writer

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Died
  
December 1994, Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Books
  
Missing Pieces, Socio-medical inquiries

Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994) was an American activist and writer in medical sociology and disability rights.

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Works

He was a founding member of the Society for Disability Studies, and the first editor of Disability Studies Quarterly.

He also was a founding member and counselor at the Boston Self-Help Center.

Books

His best-known book, which first came out in 1982, is Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability. It has been reissued in 2003.

The 'Dr. Irving Kenneth Zola Collection,' a repository of most of Zola's works, can be found at The Samuel Gridley Howe Library at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Zola had taught at Brandeis since 1963.

References

Irving Zola Wikipedia