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a classic. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal His account is delivered with humour, honesty, respect, and humility. It offers insights into the world of disability, but really tells the reader as much about the wider society and its difficulty to adjust the word to embrace the needs of disabled people. Disability and Society [An] important addition to the growing literature... Missing Pieces is a fascinating and readable 'socioautobiography' that I had difficulty putting down. --Paul J. Corcoran, The New England Journal of Medicine Full of insights about the experience of disability and chronic illness, it shows us a variety of social and cultural institutions through the eyes of those whom they exclude and deny. Such studies are all too rare in the sociology of health and illness. It tells not only Zola's own story but the story of handicapped people, disabled as much by society as by any fact of body and/or mind. It is a moving, powerful, and profoundly human examination not of them but of us all. --Joseph W. Schneider, Contemporary Sociology Important and moving. We see a man grow whole as he discovers and accepts his particular limits and his complex limitlessness. --Christina Robb, The Boston Globe An absorbing book that will sensitize and enlighten...Zola has paved the way in providing us with a rich, humane, and provocative account of disability in the modern world. --Sol Levine, Qualitative Sociology Crisp and candid... full of compassion. --David A. Buehler, Library Journal

a classic. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal His account is delivered with humour, honesty, respect, and humility. It offers insights into the world of disability, but really tells the reader as much about the wider society and its difficulty to adjust the word to embrace the needs of disabled people. Disability and Society [An] important addition to the growing literature... Missing Pieces is a fascinating and readable 'socioautobiography' that I had difficulty putting down. --Paul J. Corcoran, The New England Journal of Medicine Full of insights about the experience of disability and chronic illness, it shows us a variety of social and cultural institutions through the eyes of those whom they exclude and deny. Such studies are all too rare in the sociology of health and illness. It tells not only Zola's own story but the story of handicapped people, disabled as much by society as by any fact of body and/or mind. It is a moving, powerful, and profoundly human examination not of them but of us all. --Joseph W. Schneider, Contemporary Sociology Important and moving. We see a man grow whole as he discovers and accepts his particular limits and his complex limitlessness. --Christina Robb, The Boston Globe An absorbing book that will sensitize and enlighten...Zola has paved the way in providing us with a rich, humane, and provocative account of disability in the modern world. --Sol Levine, Qualitative Sociology Crisp and candid... full of compassion. --David A. Buehler, Library Journal

[An] important addition to the growing literature... Missing Pieces is a fascinating and readable 'socioautobiography' that I had difficulty putting down. -Paul J. Corcoran, The New England Journal of Medicine Full of insights about the experience of disability and chronic illness, it shows us a variety of social and cultural institutions through the eyes of those whom they exclude and deny. Such studies are all too rare in the sociology of health and illness. It tells not only Zola's own story but the story of handicapped people, disabled as much by society as by any fact of body and/or mind. It is a moving, powerful, and profoundly human examination not of them but of us all. -Joseph W. Schneider, Contemporary Sociology Important and moving. We see a man grow whole as he discovers and accepts his particular limits and his complex limitlessness. -Christina Robb, The Boston Globe An absorbing book that will sensitize and enlighten...Zola has paved the way in providing us with a rich, humane, and provocative account of disability in the modern world. -Sol Levine, Qualitative Sociology Crisp and candid... full of compassion. -David A. Buehler, Library Journal His account is delivered with humour, honesty, respect, and humility. It offers insights into the world of disability, but really tells the reader as much about the wider society and its difficulty to adjust the word to embrace the needs of disabled people. -Disability and Society ...a classic. -Review of Disability Studies Today's college kids take identity politics and area studies for granted, but they only exist because of people like Zola. His sociological look inside an assisted living facility, first published in 1981, was a foundational text for the study of disability. And its re-release couldn't be more timely: It comes as the idea of politics organized around identity is increasingly considered obscene. Zola's exploration of what it means to live as an embodiment of the body's frailty in a culture that fetishizes perfect health reminds us of identity politics' relevance. -City Limits

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Irving Kenneth Zola (1935-1994) was Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and a founding member and counselor at the Boston Self-Help Center. Nancy Mairs is the author of seven books, including Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Disabled, and most recently, A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories. She lives in Tucson with her husband, George.

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