Article: Irving Zola, Brandeis professor who fought for rights of disabled

Irving Kenneth Zola, a Brandeis University professor and champion of the rights of the disabled, died Thursday of a heart attack in his Newton home. He was 59.

Professor Zola was born and raised in Boston. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1954 and from Harvard College, where he studied sociology, in 1958. He continued his studies at Harvard University, and received his doctorate in 1962 from the Department of Social Relations.

Professor Zola began his career as a research sociologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 1963 he had taught at Brandeis, where his main research interests included ethnicity, the sociology of health and illness, and disabilities studies.

Although ...

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