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By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Find out more Skip Navigation Oxford Journals Contact Us My Basket My Account British Medical Bulletin About This Journal Contact This Journal Subscriptions View Current Issue (Volume 115 Issue 1 September 2015) Archive Search Institution: :: Sign In as Personal Subscriber Oxford Journals Medicine & Health British Medical Bulletin Volume 63 Issue 1 Pp. 1-4. Preface Jonathan Ashmore 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 a balance of chapters that reflect the startling progress in understanding hearing. As anticipated in the preface to the 1987 British Medical Bulletin issue on hearing, there has been further movement in the field away from the strict diagnosis of hearing loss towards the basic understanding of both peripheral and perceptual mechanisms. This is not to imply that diagnosis and management will be removed from the centre stage of audiology, for (as shown in several chapters) these remain the core skills in the clinic. There is, however, a growing appreciation that studying the basic mechanisms of hearing and hearing loss can form the only rational basis for treatment. Progress in the field has depended on both the application of new technologies and on new treatment methods. To carry this programme forward requires, as it has done over the past three decades in the UK, groupings of researchers, clinicians and healthcare … (Full Text of this Article) « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br Med Bull (2002) 63 (1): 1-4. doi: 10.1093/bmb/63.1.1 This article appears in: New developments in hearing and balance » Extract Free Full Text (HTML) Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Disclaimer Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Ashmore, J. Search for related content PubMed Articles by Ashmore, J. 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