SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY AS A SCIENTIFIC FIELD
DOI: http://doi.org/10.33876/2224-9680/2020-1-19/07
Keywords:
disability, sociology of disability, disability studies, sociology of medicine, sociology of health care, models of disability, disabled peopleAbstract
The reader is offered a brief review of the new important work by Professor B. S. Ivkov, in which he gave a rationale for creating a separate scientific field, sociology of disability. It is an interdisciplinary field for the cooperation of disability studies researchers and is distinguished by the author from the sociologies of medicine or health care. The monograph discusses how the phenomenon of disability and the social category of disabled people need to be studied, above all, as a social-medical and/or biosocial construction, with an emphasis on the social, disability’s biological and psychological components included. The author of the review describes the monograph and concludes that this work is important for Bulgarian and international science.
Citation link:
Janeva-Balabanska, I. (2020). Sociologija invalidnosti kak nauchnoe napravlenie [Sociology of Disability as a Scientific Field]. Medicinskaja antropologija i biojetika [Medical Anthropology and Bioethics], 1 (19)
