Research Catalog

Title

• Biomedical computing : digitizing life in the United States / Joseph November.

Author

November, Joseph Adam, 1975-

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

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Description

xvi, 344 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Resource added for the Health Information Technology program 105301.

Series Statement

• Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 130th ser., 2

Uniform Title

• Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science 130th ser., 2.
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Bioinformatics > United States > History
• Biomedical Research
• Biomedical Research > history
• Biomedical Research > history > United States
• History, 20th Century
• History, 20th Century > United States
• Medical Informatics Computing
• Medical Informatics Computing > history
• Medical Informatics Computing > history > United States
• Medical informatics > United States > History
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• United States
• United States Government Agencies
• United States Government Agencies > history
• United States Government Agencies > history > United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Putting molecular biology and medical diagnosis into metal brains : operations research and the origins of biomedical computing -- Building tomorrow's biomedicine : the National Institutes of Health's early mission to computerize biology and medicine -- The LINC revolution : the forgotten biomedical origins of personal computing -- A new way of life : computing in the lab, in the clinic, and at the foundation -- Martians, experts, and universitas : biomedical computing at Stanford University, 1960-1966.

ISBN

• 9781421404684 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
• 1421404680 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011029753

OCLC

741999154

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library