caa a22 4500 60617091X CHVBK 20210128100720.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10728-013-0261-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10728-013-0261-4 Hindhede Anette Steno Health Promotion Center, Niels Steensens Vej 8, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark aut Situations of Choice: Configuring the Empowered Consumer of Hearing Technologies [Elektronische Daten] [Anette Hindhede] Focusing on the largest and, arguably, the least visible disability group, the hearing impaired, this paper explores present-day views and understandings of hearing impairment and rehabilitation in a Danish context, with particular focus on working-age adults with late onset of hearing impairment. The paper shows how recent changes in perception of the hearing impaired patient relate to the introduction of a new health care reform that turns audiological rehabilitation into a consumer issue. Ethnographic and interview data from hearing clinics provides evidence that the hearing technologies that are on offer stabilise in specific forms through processes of negotiation among a variety of social actors representing the interests of science, industry, government, and hearing-impaired people. The discussion critically considers the emergence of an "informed consumer” in audiological practices. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Choice nationallicence Consumerism nationallicence Empowerment nationallicence Hearing technologies nationallicence Health research nationallicence Health Care Analysis Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2015-09-01), 221-237 1065-3058 23:3<221 2015 23 10728 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0261-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0261-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hindhede Anette Steno Health Promotion Center, Niels Steensens Vej 8, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2015-09-01), 221-237 1065-3058 23:3<221 2015 23 10728