Digitizing diagnosis : medicine, minds, and machines in twentieth-century America / Andrew S. Lea.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in computing and culturePublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1421446820
- 9781421446820
- 616.0750285 23/eng/20230726
- RC78.7.D35 L44 2023
- WB 141
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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