Journal article
Bringing the Global into Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Narrative, and Global Health
Journal of health and social behavior, v 65(3), pp 309-322
Sep 2024
PMID: 38738467
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
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.
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Details
- Title
- Bringing the Global into Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Narrative, and Global Health
- Creators
- Susan E. Bell - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of health and social behavior, v 65(3), pp 309-322
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- Bowdoin College 1230698 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) School for Advanced Research
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001221987700001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85193072412
- Other Identifier
- 991021877615704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Social
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Social Sciences, Biomedical
- Sociology