| Negotiating hearing disability and hearing disabled identities. | |
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PMID: 21540252 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Using disability theory as a framework and social science theories of identity to strengthen the arguments, this article explores empirically how working-age adults confront the medical diagnosis of hearing impairment. For most participants hearing impairment threatens the stability of social interaction and the construction of hearing disabled identities is seen as shaped in the interaction with the hearing impaired person's surroundings. In order to overcome the potential stigmatization the 'passing' as normal becomes predominant. For many the diagnosis provokes radical redefinitions of the self. The discursively produced categorization and subjectivity of senescence mean that rehabilitation technologies such as hearing aids identify a particular life-style (disabled) which determines their social significance. Thus wearing a hearing aid works against the contemporary attempt to create socially ideal bodily presentations of the self, as the hearing aid is a symbolic extension of the body's lack of function. |
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Anette Lykke Hindhede |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-5-3 |
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Title: Health (London, England : 1997) Volume: - ISSN: 1461-7196 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-5-4 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9800465 Medline TA: Health (London) Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of Aarhus, Denmark. |
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