Book Review Information Retrieval." A Health Care Perspective, William Hersh, Springer-Verlag, 1996. I must confess to being hesitant when asked to review this book, after all, my knowledge of health care is limited to thankfully infrequent visits to my doctor. Moreover, I have a pet hate for articles that expect laymen like me to glean understanding from examples full of obtuse medical terminology. I mention this because I suspect many in the IR community will be similarly reticent about looking at this book. Well, let me put your minds at ease. The book indeed contains numerous medical examples, but, where they form an intrinsic part of the text, they are (almost) all explained in plain everyday language. As such, they are relevant and illuminating. The book is aimed squarely at the medical informatics community, but it is without doubt a valuable, readable and motivating introduction to IR in general, and hence deserves to be widely read. Modern medicine is a highly complex undertaking. Its practitioners, doctors, nurses, researchers and administrators, rely heavily on the availability of accurate up-to-date information. The decisions they make have very real, often life or death consequences. Medicine is thus, of necessity, a very
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Book Review: Information Retrieval. A Health Care Perspective, William Hersh, Springer-Verlag, 1996
Davenport, David
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1996
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