University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2021 Dec;62(4):477-492. doi: 10.1177/00221465211019358. Epub 2021 Jun 8.
Medical sociologists and sociologists of disability study similar topics but, because of competing or conflicting theoretical paradigms, tend to arrive at different conclusions, engage with different audiences, and pursue different directions for social change. Despite diverging trajectories over the past 20 years, however, there remains clear potential overlap between both subfields in the study of disability and untapped opportunities for cross-fertilization. Our purpose here is to place these literatures in conversation with each other. Toward this end, we identify major themes in the last 20 years of medical sociology scholarship, gaps with regard to disability in those themes, and possibilities (including methodologies) we see at the intersection of medical sociology and the sociology of disability that could address these gaps.
医学社会学家和残疾问题社会学家研究相似的主题，但由于理论范式的竞争或冲突，往往得出不同的结论，与不同的受众接触，并为社会变革寻求不同的方向。然而，尽管在过去 20 年中轨迹不同，但在残疾研究中，这两个分支领域仍然存在明显的重叠，并存在着交叉融合的机会。我们的目的是将这些文献进行对话。为此，我们确定了过去 20 年医学社会学研究中的主要主题，以及这些主题中关于残疾的差距，并提出了我们在医学社会学和残疾社会学的交叉点上看到的可能（包括方法学），以解决这些差距。
