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Digitizing diagnosis : medicine, minds, and machines in twentieth-century America /

Lea, Andrew S. 1992-

Digitizing diagnosis : medicine, minds, and machines in twentieth-century America / Andrew S. Lea. - 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) - Studies in computing and culture . - Studies in computing and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Patient -- 1 Indexing the World -- 2 The Statistical Patient -- Part II: Disease -- 3 The Disease Concept Incarnate -- 4 The Medical Mind -- Part III: Physician -- 5 MYCIN Explains Itself -- 6 "Hidden in the Code" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

"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"--

1421446820 9781421446820


Diagnosis--Data processing--History.
History, 20th Century
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted--history
Diagnostics--Informatique--Histoire.
M�edecine--Histoire--20e si�ecle.
Diagnosis--Data processing


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