Textbook of Audiological Medicine

Audiological medicine is a relatively new specialty spanning the investigation diagnosis and medical management of hearing and balance disorders. Recent years have seen its growth as a separate medical discipline although its practice depends not only upon a clear understanding of the basic sciences relevant to auditory and vestibular function but also upon experience and knowledge in a wide range of clinical disciplines relevant to hearing and balance disorders including genetics immunology pediatrics geriatrics neurology otolaryngology ophthalmology psychiatry and general internal medicine. A Textbook of Audiological Medicine integrates the science and medicine of auditory and vestibular disorders providing the first comprehensive textbook on the subject. There are five main sections; the first deals with both the auditory and vestibular systems and then each system is considered in terms of the relevant basic sciences and clinical disorders.