Viral Networks, Reconnected: A Digital Humanities/History of Medicine Research Forum

On January 29-30, 2018, the NLM hosted Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History, bringing together scholars from various fields of medical history whose innovative research shows promise through the use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities. The event was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a grant to Virginia Tech, and was a collaborative outcome of NLM's long standing partnership with the NEH. Viral Networks, Reconnected reunites three scholars who participated in the January 2018 Viral Networks workshop, offering them the opportunity to share the progress of their research and their thoughts about the future of the digital humanities and the history of medicine. Viral Networks, Reconnected is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities. A Network of Number Doctors: Biostatistics at the NIH Christopher J. Phillips, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University Between roughly 1930 and 1980, statistical analysis became a central component of clinical medicine. Long used in public health and epidemiology, biostatistical tools and concepts were increasingly deployed to answer the most basic of clinical inquiries: Is this therapy effective? How long will this patient survive? Is this substance carcinogenic? Biometricians and biostatisticians at the National Institutes of Health were central to this transformation, both es...
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