Irving Zola

Irving Kenneth Zola (1935—1994) was an internationally-known activist and writer in the fields of medical sociology and disability rights. He was a founding member of the Society of 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 [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/246_reg.html 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.

External links

* [http://www.irvingzola.com/ Irving Zola homepage, now maintained by his wife, Judy Norsigian]
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/lemberg/SGHL/Subpages/Collections/irving_kenneth_zola.htm Brandeis page on Zola]