Book reviewed in this article:Disease of the Nose, Throat and Ear and Head and Neck, 14th ednBy Bernard Colman.Specific Speech and Language Disorders in Children: Correlates, Characteristics and OutcomesEdited by P. Fletcher and D. Hall.Primary Health Care and Psychiatric EpidemiologyEdited by B. Cooper and R. Eastwood.Pragmatics of Language: Clinical Practice IssuesEdited by T. M. Gallagher.