PSYCH 171: Computers in Psychiatry
London, 1895. A mysterious invention had arrived at St Bartholomew’s Hospital: an extraordinary machine capable of storing medical records, transmitting messages across continents and even conversing with patients.
Its inventor called it The Electronic Mind.
But something was troubling the hospital.
Patients were receiving advice from unseen counsellors. Private medical histories were appearing in unexpected places. Physicians were being judged by anonymous strangers, and a young woman in suicidal crisis had entrusted her despair to a machine that could not reach her.
The hospital…
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