Biomedical computing digitizing life in the united states the johns hopkins university studies in historical and political science book 130 ebook joseph a november amazonca kindle store. The modern american clinic like the modern american automobile newspaper telephone or university has been steadily infiltrated by computers over the past hal. Biomedical computing digitizing life in the united states the johns hopkins university studies in historical and political science by joseph a november 2012 04 23 books amazonca. In this long overdue study historian joseph a november explores the early attempts in the 1950s and 1960s to computerize biomedical research in the united states computers and biomedical research are now so intimately connected that it is difficult to imagine when such critical work was offline. Biomedical computing transports readers back to such a time and investigates how computers first appeared in the research lab and doctors 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