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Digitizing diagnosis : medicine, minds, and machines in twentieth-century America / Andrew S. Lea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lea, Andrew S., 1992- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Computing and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diagnosis--Data processing.
- Diagnosis.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lea, Andrew S. Digitizing Diagnosis
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-4682-0
- OCLC:
- 1390440433
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