1965 LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012)
Use of computers in biology and medicine.
GMN 7356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9528
1965 STACEY, Ralph W.; WAXMAN, Bruce
Computers in biomedical research. Edited by Ralph W. Stacy and Bruce Waxman. 2 vols.
Section A, Chapter 2: "New mathematical methods in the life sciences" by George B. Dantzig. Section D, Chapter 12: "The application of computers to electroencephalography" by Mary A. B. Brazier. Section E, Chapter 13:…
GMN 8834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11012
1968 LANCASTER, F. W.
Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service.
The first large-scale evaluation of a "major operating information system." A detailed analysis of the performance of the Medical Literature and Analysis System (MEDLARS) in relation to 300 actual "demand search" requ…
GMN 7948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10123
1968 LINDBERG, Donald A. B. (1933 – )
The computer and medical care.
GMN 8172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10348
1969 HOPPS, Howard C.
Computerized mapping of disease and environmental data. A report of the Mapping of Disease (MOD) Project.
This appears to be the earliest monograph on computerized disease mapping. At the time the research was conducted both computer graphics processing and data output in mainframe computers were inadequate for drawing al…
GMN 10611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12804
1970 SACHER, George A. (1917 – 1981); FINCH, Caleb Ellicott (1939 – ); HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
GMN 8380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10557
1970 CACERES, Cesar Augusto (1927 – 2020); DREIFUS, Leonard S. (1925 – 2017)
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
GMN 11564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13763
1972 MCGLASHAN, Neil D.
Medical geography: Techniques and field studies. Ediited by N. D. McGlashan
Chapter 5: "Computers and mapping in medical geography" by R. W. Armstrong appears to be one of the earliest reviews of this subject.
GMN 10505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12698
1973 HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)
Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography).
Hounsfield invented computer-assisted tomography (CAT), or computed tomography (CT). In 1979 Hounsfield shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Allen M. Cormack "for the development of computer assisted …
GMN 2700.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4340
1974 LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012); ET AL
Computerized transaxial x-ray tomography of the human body.
Ledley and team developed the developed the ACTA 0100 CT Scanner (Automatic Computerized Traverse Axial)— the first whole-body computed tomography scanner. With G. Di Chiro, A. J. Luessenhop, and H.L. Twigg. For furth…
GMN 6909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9073
1974 COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.
This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…
GMN 8386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10563
1974 COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – ); SHORTLIFFE, Edward Hance (1947 – ); ET AL
"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.
MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…
GMN 9487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11671
1975 BUCHANAN, Bruce G. (1940 – ); SHORTLIFFE, Edward Hance (1947 – )
A model of inexact reasoning in medicine.
"MYCIN was an early backward chaining expert system that used artificial intelligence to identify bacteria causing severe infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis, and to recommend antibiotics, with the dosage ad…
GMN 9486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11670
1978 COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
Multiphasic health testing services.
'In 1968 Morris F. Collen, MD and his team at KP’s Medical Methods Research (MMR) built a medical information system that peers described in the era as the most advanced of its kind. It was an aspiration of medical in…
GMN 9831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12019
1979 LINDBERG, Donald A. B. (1933 – )
The growth of medical information systems in the United States.
"About a fourth of the operating cost off hospitals is expended on information handling. (p. 2).
GMN 8173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10349
1980 LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008); FEIGENBAUM, Edward Albert (1936 – ); BUCHANAN, Bruce G. (1940 – ); LINDSAY, Robert K.
Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.
GMN 8175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10351
1982 MILES, Wyndham Davies (1916 – 2011)
A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."
GMN 7431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9603
1983 JONES, Douglas Samuel (1922 – 2013); SLEEMAN, Brian David (1939 – )
Differential equations and mathematical biology.
"This textbook shows how first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to model the growth of a population, the administration of drugs, and the mechanism by which living cells divide. The authors presen…
GMN 12061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14270
1986 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
The Visible Human Project.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional repre…
GMN 10201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12390
1990 BLUM, Bruce I.; DUNCAN, Karen
A history of medical informatics.
GMN 7355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9527
1990 EZQUERRA, Norberto F.
Proceedings of the first conference on visualization in biomedical computing. May 22-25, 1990. Norbert F. Ezquerra, Chair.
GMN 8379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10556
1991 DICK, Richard S.; STEEN, Elaine B.
The computer-based patient record: An essential technology for health care. Committee on Improving the Patient Record, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. Edited by Richard S. Dick and Elaine B. Steen
GMN 10303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12495
1994 SMITH, K. R.; FRANK, K. J.; BUCHOLZ, R. D.
The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.
The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …
GMN 8140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10316
1995 COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950-1990.
Second edition, edited by Morris F. Collen and Marion J. Ball, and published the year after Collen's death at the age of 100, retitled The history of medical informatics in the United States (New York: Springer, 2015).
GMN 8177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10353
1998 PEITGEN, Heinz-Otto (1945 – ); BERGHORN, Wilhelm; BIEL, Matthias
The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.
The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.
GMN 7642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9814
2000 MCCRACKEN, Thomas O.
New atlas of human anatomy.
The first printed atlas of color computer images adapted from 3D images developed in the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. Includes CD-ROM with 3D electronic images.
GMN 7643 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9815
2001 MARESCAUX, Jacques (1948 – ); LEROY, Joël
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
GMN 7959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10134
2002 THURTLE, Phillip; MITCHELL, Robert E.
Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.
GMN 7953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10128
2002 HOOK, Diana Hainault (1955 – ); NORMAN, Jeremy Michael (1945 – )
Origins of cyberspace: A library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications.
Includes some significant early annotated references to the applictions of computing to biology and medicine.
GMN 8200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10376
2002 SCULLI, Frank; QUALTER, John
BioDigital.
https://www.biodigital.com/ "The Word's First Human Visualization Platform: Anatomy, Disease & Treatments— all in interactive 3D. Web, Mobile and Augmented Reality "the virtual body as the health equivalent of Google …
GMN 10238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12428
2002 DERISI, Joseph L.; WANG, David; COSCOY, Laurent; ZYLBERBERG, Maxine; ET AL
Microarray-based detection and genotyping of viral pathogens.
First publication of DeRisi's microarray assay for the detection and genotyping of viral pathogens. "To address the limitations of existing viral detection methodologies, we have developed a genomic approach to virus …
GMN 12439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14671
2003 BOURNE, Charles P.; HAHN, Trudi Bellardo
A history of online information services 1963-1976.
Pages 197-223 concern "Modern bibliographic control of medical literature." Development of MEDLARS, MEDLARS II, MEDLINE.
GMN 9804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11992
2005 NORMAN, Jeremy Michael (1945 – )
From Gutenberg to the internet: A sourcebook on the history of information technology. Edited by Jeremy M. Norman.
Includes some documentation on the early applications of computing to biology and medicine.
GMN 8201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10377
2005 WEISZ, George; OPINEL, Annick; JORLAND, Gérard (1946 – 2018)
Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.
GMN 14029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16336
2006 GEDEON, Andras (1946 – )
Science and technology in medicine. An illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries.
Forewards by Leslie A. Geddes and Paul U. Unschuld. Introduction by Jeremy M. Norman. Unusually well designed and produced.
GMN 7167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9334
2007 DEE, Cheryl Rae
Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).
Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 7994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10170
2008 HUSBANDS, Philip (1961 – ); HOLLAND, Owen; WHEELER, Michael
The mechanical mind in history. Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler.
GMN 7360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9532
2009 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – ); GINSBURG, Jeremy; MOHEBBI, Matthew H.; ET AL
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.
Abstract "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new …
GMN 13728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16012
2010 PICKERING, Andrew (1948 – )
The cybernetic brain: Sketches of another future.
GMN 7359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9531
2010 EDWARDS, Paul N.
A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.
GMN 7510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9682
2010 TRÖHLER, Ulrich (1943 – )
The introduction of numerical methods to assess the effects of medical interventions during the 18th century: a brief history.
An outstanding bibliographical survey available online from the James Lind Library at this link.
GMN 9459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11642
2011 BACAËR, Nicolas
A short history of mathematical population dynamics.
GMN 9892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12080
2011 LIMA, Manuel (1978 – )
Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information.
An exceptionally beautiful graphic work with many historical examples showing how data in many fields, including medicine and biology, can be mapped and visualized.
GMN 10563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12756
2011 CHIU, Charles Y.; DERISI, Joseph L.; CHEN, Eunice C.; MILLER, Steve A.
Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.
Direct link to the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE.com: https://www.jove.com/video/2536/using-pan-viral-microarray-assay-virochip-to-screen-clinical-samples Using a Pan-Viral Microarray Assay (Virochip) to Scr…
GMN 12440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14672
2012 GARCÍA-SANCHO, Miguel
Biology, computing and the history of molecular sequencing: From proteins to DNA, 1945-2000.
GMN 9196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11377
2012 COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
Computer medical databases: The first six decades (1950–2010).
GMN 9723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11910
2012 SEUNG, Hyunjune Sebastian
Eyewire: A game to map the brain.
https://eyewire.org/explore Eyewire is a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seung's Lab at Princeton University. This citizen science human-based computation game challenges players to map retinal neurons. Eyewire l…
GMN 12751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14997
2012 DEL MAESTRO, Rolando Fausto (1949 – ); DELORME, Sébastien; LAROCHE, Denis; DIRADDO, Robert
A physics-based virtual simulator for cranial microneurosurgery training.
"Abstract "BACKGROUND: "A virtual reality neurosurgery simulator with haptic feedback may help in the training and assessment of technical skills requiring the use of tactile and visual cues. "OBJECTIVE: "To develop a…
GMN 14013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16320
2013 MANOOR, Manu Sebastian; JIANG, Ziwen; MCALPINE, Michael C. (1978 – ); ET AL
3D printed bionic ears.
Description and illustration of the first 3D printed bionic organ: an ear. From the Abstract: "The ability to three-dimensionally interweave biological tissue with functional electronics could enable the creation of b…
GMN 8151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10327
2013 MEIRELLES, Isabel
Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.
Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.
GMN 10564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12757
