Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2024 Sep;65(3):309-322. doi: 10.1177/00221465241249701. Epub 2024 May 13.
Medical sociologists have much to gain by bringing in global health. In this article, I make the case for expanding our field by furthering sociological perspectives on global health. I reflect on my career, the influence of scholar-activist mentors, and my contributions to the development of scholarship about medicalization, narrative, and global health in medical sociology. First, I focus on medicalization, its relationship to biomedicalization and pharmaceuticalization, and critiques of the medicalization of global health. Second, I analyze the narrative turn in studies of illness experiences and the inclusion of visual materials as an integral part of narrative studies of illness. Third, I explore global health and show examples of bodies of knowledge that medical sociologists are building. Although I present each as a distinct area, my discussion illustrates how the three areas are intertwined and how my contributions to each traverse and build connections among them.
医学社会学家从引入全球健康中受益匪浅。在本文中，我通过进一步推进全球健康的社会学观点来论证扩大我们领域的必要性。我反思了我的职业生涯、学者-活动家导师的影响，以及我对医学社会学中关于医学化、叙事和全球健康的学术发展的贡献。首先，我关注医学化，及其与生物医学化和药物化的关系，以及对全球健康医学化的批判。其次，我分析了疾病经验研究中的叙事转向，以及将视觉材料作为疾病叙事研究的一个组成部分。第三，我探讨了全球健康，并展示了医学社会学家正在构建的知识体系的例子。虽然我将每个领域都呈现为一个独特的领域，但我的讨论说明了这三个领域是如何相互交织的，以及我对每个领域的贡献是如何在它们之间跨越并建立联系的。
