Description: 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.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: [Digitizing Diagnosis] is a superb addition to the history of medicine and science.
--Family Medicine