{"product_id":"digitizing-diagnosis-andrew-s-lea-9781421446813","title":"Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine: diagnosis. In \u003ci\u003eDigitizing Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Lea examines these efforts--and the larger questions, debates, and transformations that emerged in their wake. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile surveying the continuities spanning the analog and digital worlds of medicine, Lea uncovers how the introduction of the computer to medical diagnosis reconfigured the identities of patients, diseases, and physicians. Debates about how and whether to apply computers to the problem of diagnosis, he demonstrates, were animated by larger concerns about the nature of medical reasoning, the definitions of disease, and the authority and identity of physicians and patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their attempts to digitize diagnosis, these interdisciplinary groups of researchers repeatedly came up against fundamental moral and philosophical questions. How should doctors classify diseases? Could humans understand, and come to trust, the opaque decision-making processes of machines? And how might computerized systems circumvent--or calcify--bias? As medical algorithms become more deeply integrated into clinical care, researchers, clinicians, and caregivers continue to grapple with these questions today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew S. Lea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421446812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421446813\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\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Andrew S. Lea","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44149611495679,"sku":"9781421446813","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a82caf68-27ae-4136-ad75-136caea36aa9.jpg?v=1688457611","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digitizing-diagnosis-andrew-s-lea-9781421446813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}