EARI0011 |Balance|Audiological Science |clinical practice

This module will cover the main academic and practical aspects of vestibular science including epidemiology; overview of causes of balance problems and...

This module will cover the main academic and practical aspects of vestibular science including epidemiology; overview of causes of balance problems and vestibular dysfunction in adults and children; diagnostic assessment strategies; interpretation of tests; rehabilitation and management strategies of all commonly recognised peripheral and central vestibular disorders.

The module will fulfil the intended learning outcomes (ILOs) of the MSc in Audiological Science / MSc Audiological Science with Clinical Practice relating to the assessment and management of patients with dizziness / vertigo.

The aim of this module is to introduce you to different imaging techniques for ENT and Audiovestibular diagnosis and determine prognosis and monitoring of...

The aim of this module is to introduce you to different imaging techniques for ENT and Audiovestibular diagnosis and determine prognosis and monitoring of treatment effectiveness. These include: MRI, FMRI, CT, EEG with source reconstruction and MEG.

Each technique will be introduced with methods of recording and review of current uses in ENT and associated practice.

This is a compulsory module in the MSc Advanced Audiology: Otology and Skull Base Surgery pathway and an optional module in the MSc / PG diploma Advanced Audiology: Audiovestibular Medicine pathway.

Module Content and Indicative Topics

This course explores the ways in which madness has been understood, treated and portrayed. It opens up debates concerning...

This module explores the experience of illness. It focuses in particular on tensions between subjective and objective, examining how rich and socially embedded...

This module explores the experience of illness. It focuses in particular on tensions between subjective and objective, examining how rich and socially embedded interpretive responses to the experience of illness, can and should be brought into dialogue with biomedical, philosophical, and sociological understandings of the same phenomena. 

The first half of the course focuses on the role of narrative in constituting selves and illness experiences. We examine some ways in which those living with illness construct narratives to give expression to their experiences, and what a focus experience and narratives adds to a more biomedical conception of illness. The second half focuses on the intersection between biology, power and culture in constructing responses to illness, examining ideas of care and suffering, disability, stigma, illness experiences that struggle to receive recognition from biomedical science, and living under genetic risk. The sessions will be accompanied by an Illness reading group of four sessions. 