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Digitizing diagnosis : medicine, minds, and machines in twentieth-century America / Andrew S. Lea.
Van Pelt Library RC78.7.D35 L44 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lea, Andrew S. (Andrew Scott), 1992- author.
- Series:
- Studies in computing and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diagnosis--Data processing--History.
- Diagnosis.
- Diagnosis--Data processing.
- Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Medicine, minds, and machines in 20th-century America
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This is the first book-length account of early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis. It explores how these efforts produced and interacted with certain professional tensions, disease constructions, personal identities, cultural ideals, economic interests, and material practices. The book offers a historical account that raises pressing questions, problems, and challenges that must be addressed as we work to harness artificial intelligence for the benefit of the medical profession and its patients"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Indexing the World
- The Statistical Patient
- "The Standardized Language of the Machine"
- The Medical Mind
- MYCIN Explains Itself
- "Hidden in the Code".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781421446813
- 1421446812
- OCLC:
- 1371015137
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