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

"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 o...

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Main Author: Lea, Andrew S. (Andrew Scott), 1992- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Series:Studies in computing and culture.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1421446820
9781421446820

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