Irving Zola

Irving Kenneth Zola (* 1935, † 1994) was an internationally known American activist and author in the field of medical sociology and the disability movement. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Disability Studies and the first editor of Disability Studies Quarterly. He was also a founding member and advisor to the Boston Self-Help Center.

His most famous book, which first appeared in 1982, Missing Pieces is: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability.

The Dr. Irving Kenneth Zola Collection, a collection with most of Zola 's works, located in the Samuel Gridley Howe Library at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Zola had taught at Brandeis University since 1963.

Writings (selection )

As the author

• " Medicine as to institution of social control" in: Sociological Review 1972:4:487-504.
• Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability, 1982 Revision: Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 1592132448
• Socio -medical inquiries: recollections, reflections, and reconsideration decorations, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

As editor