Digitizing Diagnosis - Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Andrew S. Lea (Boston, MA) is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. Klappentext "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"--

About the author

Andrew S. Lea (Boston, MA) is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew S. Lea, Andrew S. (Brigham and Women's Hospital) Lea, Andrew S. (Brigham and Women''s Hospital) Lea
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781421446813
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4681-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Computing and Cultu; Studies in Computing and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Diagnosis, MEDICAL / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Medicine, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Medical Diagnosis