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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将全球带入医学社会学：医学化、叙事和全球健康


医学社会学家通过引入全球健康可以获益良多。在本文中，我阐述了通过进一步推进全球健康的社会学视角来扩展我们的领域的理由。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医学化、叙事和全球健康学术发展的贡献。首先，我关注医学化、其与生物医学化和制药化的关系，以及对全球健康医学化的批评。其次，我分析了疾病经历研究中的叙事转向，以及将视觉材料纳入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建立的知识体系的例子。尽管我将每个领域作为一个独特的领域进行介绍，但我的讨论说明了这三个领域如何相互交织，以及我对每个领域的贡献如何穿越并在它们之间建立联系。