When Gucci make hearing aids, I’ll be deaf: sensory impairment in later life, and a need to define it according to identity

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Hayhoe, S. 2017. When Gucci make hearing aids, I’ll be deaf: sensory impairment in later life, and a need to define it according to identity. in: Halder, S. and Assaf, L. (ed.) Inclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges New York Springer.
AuthorsHayhoe, S.
EditorsHalder, S. and Assaf, L.
Abstract

This chapter examines my experience of late deafness – becoming deaf, being diagnosed as such and then living with this new impairment. The analysis considers this experience of impairment from the point of view subjective and objective disability. I argue that I am currently less impaired now that I have been diagnosed as being hearing impaired than I was when I was not considered to be hearing impaired. The chapter concludes that impairment is subjective, and should be considered so. It also concludes that context and impairment should be considered when understanding impairment.

KeywordsDeaf; blind; impairment; disability; inclusion; culture; epistemology; ontology
Year2017
Book titleInclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges
PublisherSpringer
Output statusPublished
Place of publicationNew York
ISBN9783319552248
Publication dates
Print08 May 2017
Publication process dates
Deposited02 Dec 2015
Accepted2016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55224-8_6
Journal citation3, pp. 77-78
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