{"product_id":"biomedical-computing-joseph-a-november-9781421404684","title":"Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Computer History Museum Prize of the Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, and Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine biology and medicine today without computers. What would laboratory work be like if electronic databases and statistical software did not exist? Would disciplines like genomics even be feasible if we lacked the means to manage and manipulate huge volumes of digital data? How would patients fare in a world absent CT scans, programmable pacemakers, and computerized medical records?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, computers are a critical component of almost all research in biology and medicine. Yet, just fifty years ago, the study of life was by far the least digitized field of science, its living subject matter thought too complex and dynamic to be meaningfully analyzed by logic-driven computers. In this long-overdue study, historian Joseph November explores the early attempts, in the 1950s and 1960s, to computerize biomedical research in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComputers and biomedical research are now so intimately connected that it is difficult to imagine when such critical work was offline. \u003ci\u003eBiomedical Computing\u003c\/i\u003e transports readers back to such a time and investigates how computers first appeared in the research lab and doctor's office. November examines the conditions that made possible the computerization of biology--including strong technological, institutional, and political support from the National Institutes of Health--and shows not only how digital technology transformed the life sciences but also how the intersection of the two led to important developments in computer architecture and software design. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of this phenomenon has been only vaguely understood. November's thoroughly researched and lively study makes clear for readers the motives behind computerizing the study of life and how that technology profoundly affects biomedical research today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph A. November\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421404680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421404684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012","brand":"Joseph A. November","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449573912831,"sku":"9781421404684","price":65.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d392b43e-6188-40a2-966f-1a7469679c54.jpg?v=1777263990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/biomedical-computing-joseph-a-november-9781421404684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}