Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ashmore, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Ashmore, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

British Medical Bulletin 63:1-4 (2002)
© 2002 The British Council

Preface

Jonathan Ashmore

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

It is now 15 years since the last review on hearing was published in the British Medical Bulletin. The previous review had been published over 30 years earlier. The shortening interval reflects the pace of scientific communication, but it also reflects the spectacular growth in what we know about hearing mechanisms and the prospects for treating deafness. That the British Medical Bulletin has chosen to devote this issue to hearing is a signal of the recognition that hearing – or rather the consequences of a lack of hearing – is one of the biomedical areas where UK research has made major contributions. In countries with ageing populations and lower mortality from disease, we should like to think that the fruits of current hearing research are already making a really significant contribution to improving the quality of life of their people.

In this issue we have tried to bring together . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?