Irving Zola
Author
1935 – 1994
Who was Irving Zola?
Irving Kenneth Zola was an internationally-known activist and writer in the fields of medical sociology and disability rights. 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.
His best-known book, which first came out in 1982, is Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability. It has recently been reissued.
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.
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- Born
- 1935
- Also known as
- Irving Kenneth Zola
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Dec 1, 1994
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on July 23, 2013
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