Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back In: Reflections on a Past, Present, and Future "Medical Sociology"
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorPublished 1 March 1991
Irving Kenneth Zola
Citations156
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.52
SNIP2.29
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
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.
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.
Keywords
PsychologySocial SciencesMedicine
The Mississippi Valley Historical ReviewThe Sociological Imagination
8,160 Citations1959Charles W. Mills
Choice Reviews OnlineThe illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition
3,591 Citations1988Arthur Kleinman
Social ProblemsLearning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
3,471 Citations1986Patrícia Hill Collins
The American Historical ReviewThe Social Transformation of American Medicine
3,287 Citations1984Judith Walzer Leavitt, Paul Starr
The Science Question in Feminism
2,798 Citations1988Sandra Harding
Medical Anthropology QuarterlyThe Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology
2,514 Citations1987Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Margaret Lock
After discussing ways in which anthropologists, other social scientists, and people from various cultures have conceptualized the body, the study of emotions holds promise for providing a new approach to the subject.
Journal of American HistoryThe Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
2,056 Citations1988Sylvia D. Hoffert, Emily Martin
International Journal of Health ServicesHealthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life
1,867 Citations1980Robert Crawford
By elevating health to a super value, a metaphor for all that is good in life, healthism reinforces the privatization of the struggle for generalized well-being.
The Birth of the Clinic
1,714 Citations2012Michel Foucault
This book discusses spaces and classes, a political Consciousness, the free field, and the Old Age of the Clinic, which explored the role of hospitals in the development of a political consciousness.
The discourse of medicine : dialectics of medical interviews
1,570 Citations1984Elliot G. Mishler
Women s Studies International ForumCan there be a feminist ethnography?
1,233 Citations1988Judith Stacey
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooksThe Silent World of Doctor and Patient
999 Citations2002Jay Katz
The once and future Silent World, by Alexander Morgan Capron, describes the struggle for freedom from Lay Control and the struggle over Rights and Capacities in a post-modern world.
A M A Archives of Internal MedicineA Contribution to the Philosophy of medicine
903 Citations1956Thomas Szasz
To study the "customs" which shape and govern one's day-to-day life is most difficult of all.
American Sociological ReviewCulture and Symptoms--An Analysis of Patient's Presenting Complaints
759 Citations1966Irving Kenneth Zola
It is suggested that a socially conditioned selective process may be operating in what is brought in for medical treatment and not etiological ones which account for many of the previously unexplained epidemiological differences between societies and even between subgroups within a society.
Handbook of medical sociology
599 Citations1972Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad +2 more
Social ProblemsThe Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
535 Citations1985Judith Stacey, Barrie Thorne
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorInformation Giving in Medical Care
467 Citations1985Howard Waitzkin
The findings did not clearly confirm a relationship among information withholding, uncertainty, and power but did clarify the importance of class-based sociolinguistic barriers to communication.
Sociological InquiryKnowledge and Women's Interests: Issues of Epistemology and Methodology in Feminist Sociological Research*
462 Citations1986Judith Α. Cook, Mary Margaret Fonow
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
369 Citations1973Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorA Critical Theory of Medical Discourse: Ideology, Social Control, and the Processing of Social Context in Medical Encounters
263 Citations1989Howard Waitzkin
Examining prior theories pertinent to medical discourse leads to the propositions that medical encounters tend to convey ideologic messages supportive of the current social order; that these encounters have repercussions for social control; and that medical language generally excludes a critical appraisal of the social context.
Annals of Internal MedicineThe Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care.
261 Citations1984
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsMissing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability.
243 Citations1983Joseph W. Schneider, Irving Kenneth Zola
This book is a posthumous publication based on a manuscript originally written by Gordon C. Dickinson in 2016 and then edited by David I. Dickinson.
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)From Good Will To Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy
174 Citations2001Richard K. Scotch
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorMedical Sociology: Some Tensions Among Theory, Method, and Substance
126 Citations1989David Mechanic
Improved theory on the relationships of method to data, and more attention to behavioral sequences and the social context of measurement, can serve as a stimulant to innovative solutions.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsThe Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work.
116 Citations1990Joan Stelling, Marianne A. Paget
This book discusses the language of mistakes, the meaning of intention, and the role that language plays in the development of knowledge.
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorThe Changing Terrains in Medical Sociology: Emergent Concern with Quality of Life
94 Citations1987Sol Levine
Pour l'auteur, la notion doit etre elargie et ne plus concerner uniquement les limites tolerables des applications des hautes technologies medicales utilisees dans les unites de soins intensifs pour prolonger the vie.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsIdeas about Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology.
85 Citations1990Eugene B. Gallagher, Uta Gerhardt
International Journal of Health ServicesDoes Unemployment Cause the Death Rate Peak in Each Business Cycle? A Multifactor Model of Death Rate Change
78 Citations1977Joseph Eyer
Social relationship changes, both as sources of stress and as means of relief, account for the greatest part of the business cycle variation of the death rate.
Journal of Narrative and Life HistoryBeyond Reductionism: Narrative Genres in Divorce Accounts
65 Citations1991Catherine Kohler Riessman
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsGender and Discourse: The Power of Talk.
62 Citations1990Arlene Stein, Alexandra Dundas Todd +1 more
Stigma and the Dynamics of Social Cognition
51 Citations1986Jennifer Crocker, Neil Lutsky
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorCaregiving, Ethical and Informal: Emerging Challenges in the Sociology of Health and Illness
37 Citations1989Virginia Olesen
Within professional socialization and in the arena of hidden or informal care providers, an analysis of male and female informal providers and the productive work, other than care, done by these individuals are suggested.
Social Science & Medicine (1967)Latent functions of the sick role in various institutional settings
36 Citations1971Howard Waitzkin
The sick role provides a controllable form of deviance which mitigates potentially disruptive conflicts between personality needs and the social system's role demands and serves stabilizing social functions in the family, mental hospital, totalitarian state, penal institution, armed forces and Selective Service System.
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorInstitutional Trends in Medical Sociology
33 Citations1986Samuel W. Bloom
This analysis traces a detailed historical fragment from the decade following World War II and predicted that the continuity of an accepted position for medical sociology is assured even though the style and quality of its professional life are full of uncertainty.
The American SociologistBlack women and feminist sociology: The emerging perspective
30 Citations1989Rose M. Brewer
Culture Medicine and PsychiatryYour son is cured now; You may take him home
19 Citations1982Marianne A. Paget
While responding to a question on medical errors in an in-depth interview, a physician told a story about a medical error that revealed his silent involvement in the evolution of the error.
MedicineVIEWS, PROBLEMS, AND POTENTIALITIES OF THE CLINIC
14 Citations1964John D. Stoeckle, Irving Kenneth Zola
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorThe End of Medicine and the End of Medical Sociology?
13 Citations1985Jack Elinson
The author's view was that in the marshalling of statistics for their argument they had fallen into the trap of insensitivity of the measures used for assessing the impact of medical care.