Lea, Andrew S. (Author)
In 1947, the Cornell psychiatrist Keeve Brodman and a handful of colleagues began developing what would become one of the most widely used health questionnaires of its time—the Cornell Medical Index (CMI). A rigidly standardized form, the CMI presented 195 yes-no questions designed to capture the health status of “the total patient.” Over the following decades, Brodman’s project of standardizing medical history taking gradually evolved into a project of mathematizing and computerizing diagnosis: out of the CMI grew the Medical Data Screen (MDS), one of the first computerized methods of deriving diagnoses from patient data. This essay follows the life course of these tools through the second half of the twentieth century. It argues for a genealogy of biomedical computing and computerized diagnosis that takes more seriously the continuities between computer-based digital practices and paper-based analog ones. The computerized MDS evolved from, and rested upon, paper data practices associated with questionnaires and surveys. The interlocking histories of the CMI and the MDS prompt a reconsideration of the material and temporal parameters within which the history of computerized medicine has conventionally been understood.
...More
Article
Emily Stark;
Jeremy Pitt;
Alfian Nur Wicaksono;
Kristina Milanovic;
Victoria Lush;
Stephen Hoover;
(December 2018)
Odorveillance and the Ethics of Robotic Olfaction
Book
Parthasarathy, Shobita;
(2007)
Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
Thesis
Whitfield-Spinner, Linda;
(2011)
A History of Medicine and the Establishment of Medical Institutions in Middlesex County, New Jersey that Transformed Doctor and Patient Relationships during the Early Twentieth Century
Book
Rebekah Lee;
(2021)
Health, Healing and Illness in African History
Article
Emily Stark;
Stephen Hoover;
Alexandra DeCesare;
Elan Barenholtz;
(December 2018)
Medicine Has Gone to the Dogs: Deep Learning and Robotic Olfaction to Mimic Working Dogs
Book
Ericka Johnson;
(2021)
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
Article
Godderis, Rebecca;
(2013)
A Tricky Object to Classify: Evidence, Postpartum Depression and the DSM-IV
Article
Peter Murray Jones;
(2021)
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation
Article
Madeleine Mant;
(2020)
Inpatients at the St. John’s General Hospital: Morbidity in Late 19th-Century Newfoundland and Labrador
Book
Michael Stolberg;
(2021)
Learned Medicine and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
Article
Dolan, Brian;
Tillack, Allison;
(2010)
Pixels, Patterns and Problems of Vision: The Adaptation of Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Mammography in Radiological Practice in the U.S.
Article
Close-Koenig, Tricia;
(2013)
Histopathology Slides from Medical Research to Medical Practice in Interwar Strasbourg
Article
Enrique Wulff;
(2023)
Clinical Diagnosis and Cancer Probe: A History of Unity and Mass Migration
Article
Barbara Schildkrout;
(2023)
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016
Book
Wright, David;
(2011)
Downs: The History of a Disability
Article
Löwy, Ilana;
(2013)
Prenatal Diagnosis and the Transformation of the Epistemic Space of Human Heredity
Article
Murphy, Michelle;
(2000)
The “Elsewhere within Here” and Environmental Illness; or, How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space
Article
Melling, Joseph;
(2010)
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt? Experts, Lay Knowledge, and the Role of Radiography in the Diagnosis of Silicosis in Britain, c. 1919--1945
Article
Mauro Capocci;
(2017)
Regimen Strikes Back. Diagnosis, Genes and the Patient
Article
Kurcgant, Daniela;
Ayres, José Ricardo de Carvalho Mesquita;
(2011)
Crise não epiléptica psicogênica: história e crítica de um conceito
Be the first to comment!