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Harold J. Cook

February 27, 2024

Harold John Cook FRCP (born 1952) is John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University and was director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London (UCL) from 2000 to 2009, and was the Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University in New York during the 2007–2008 academic year.[1]

Prof. Cook's research interests include a number of related projects on the ways by which medical knowledge was exchanged between distant locations. More generally, he is interested in the ways in which challenges and opportunities for the field of the history of medicine are unfolding in the context of recent developments in global history.[1]

Cook is co-editor of the journal Medical History, serves on a number of advisory boards and professional bodies, and has been elected to an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.[1]

Academic career edit

Prof. Cook's academic career has evolved across decades.[1]

  • 1974 – BA Cornell College
  • 1975 – MA University of Michigan
  • 1981 – PhD University of Michigan
  • 1982 – assistant professor, Harvard University
  • 1985 – assistant professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 1988 – associate professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 1993 – professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 2000 – 2009 director, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
  • 2010 – John F. Nickoll Professor of History, Brown University

In Matters of Exchange (2007), Cook argues that engaging in international trade changed the thinking of the Dutch and those with whom they came in contact. He suggests that the preference for accurate information which accompanied the rise of commerce also laid the groundwork for the rise of science globally. The book documents the developments in medicine and natural history were fundamental aspects of this new science. It was a runner-up for the 2008 Cundill Prize.

Publications edit

Books edit

  • 2018 – The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor and War.University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46296-7
  • 2007 – Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7 (cloth)
  • 1994 – Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-4778-3 (cloth)
  • 1986 – The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-1850-1 (cloth)

Articles and contributions edit

2006

  • "What Stays Constant at the Heart of Medicine," Editorial, British Medical Journal (BMJ) 333 (23 December 2006): pp. 1281–1282.
  • "Medicine," in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science, ed. Katherine Park and Loraine Daston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 407–434.
  • "Introduction" to The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–6.
  • "Das Wissen von den Sachen," in Seine Welt Wissen. Enzyklopädien in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ulrich Johannes Schneider. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), pp. 81–124 (trans. into German by Jan Neersö).

2005

  • "Global economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature," in Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World, ed. Claudia Swan and Londa Schiebinger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 100–118, 299–302.
  • "Medical Communication in the First Global Age", Willem ten Rhijne in Japan, 1674–1676, in Academia Sinica, no. 11 (2004): pp. 16–36.

2004

2003

  • "Medicine, Materialism, Globalism: The Example of the Dutch Golden Age," Professorial inaugural lecture, UCL, 27 February 2003. Download PDF text[permanent dead link].

2002

  • "Bernard Mandeville," in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Steven Nadler. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 469–482.
  • "Body and Passions: Materialism and the Early Modern State," in Osiris, 17: pp. 25–48.

2001

  • "Time's Bodies: Crafting the Preparation and Preservation of Naturalia," Merchants and Marvels, ed. Paula Findlen and Pamela Smith. London: Routledge, pp. 237–247.
  • "Fines and Fortunes: Recognition and Regulation of Practitioners for the First 200 Years," in The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections, ed. G. Davenport, W. Ian McDonald, and Caroline Moss-Gibons. London: Royal College of Physicians pp. 28–30.
  • "Medicine and Health," in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, ed. Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain. London: Garland, pp. 475–479.

2000

  • "Boerhaave and the Flight from Reason in Medicine," in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74 (2000): pp. 221–240.

1999

  • "Bernard Mandeville and the Therapy of the 'Clever Politician'," in Journal of the History of Ideas, 60 (1999): pp. 101–124.

1998

  • "Closed Circles or Open Networks?: Communicating at a Distance During the Scientific Revolution" (with David Lux), History of Science, 36: pp. 179–211.

1997

  • "From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory," in Western Medicine: An Illustrated History, ed. Irvine Loudon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 80–101. [paperback ed. 2001.]

1996

  • "Institutional Structures and Personal Belief in the London College of Physicians," in Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in 17th-Century England, ed. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham. Aldershot: Scolar Press, pp. 91–114.
  • "Natural History and Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Medicine," in The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450-1800, Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling, eds. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, pp. 253–270.
  • "Physicians and Natural History," in Cultures of Natural History, ed. Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord, and Emma Spary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91–105.
  • "The Moral Economy of Natural History and Medicine in the Dutch Golden Age," in Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries, William Z. Shetter and Inge Van der Cruysse, eds., Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies, vol. 9. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, pp. 39–47.

1995

  • "Medical Ethics, History of: IV. Europe: B. Renaissance and Enlightenment," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, revised edition, Warren T. Reich, ed.. (New York: Macmillan, Vol. 3, pp. 1537–1543.

1994

  • "Good Advice and Little Medicine: The Professional Authority of Early Modern English Physicians," in Journal of British Studies, 33: pp. 1–31.

1993

  • "Medicine," in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, pp. 459–462.
  • "The Cutting Edge of a Revolution? Medicine and Natural History near the Shores of the North Sea," in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J. V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 45–61.

1992

  • "The New Philosophy in the Low Countries," in The Scientific Revolution in National Context, ed. Roy Porter & M. Teich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 115-149.

1991

  • "Physick and Natural History in Seventeenth-Century England," in Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History of Philosophy of Early Modern Science, R. Ariew and P. Barker, eds. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 24 Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, pp. 63–80.

1990

  • "The New Philosophy and Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England," in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. David Lindberg and Robert Westman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 397–436.
  • "Sir John Colbatch and Augustan Medicine: Experimentalism, Character and Entrepreneurialism," in Annals of Science, 47: pp. 475–505.
  • "The Rose Case Reconsidered: Physic and the Law in Augustan England," in Journal of the History of Medicine, 45: pp. 527–555.
  • in Medical History, 34 (1990): 1-26.
  • "Charles Webster's Analysis of Puritanism and Science,' in Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis, ed. I. Bernard Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 265-300.

1989

  • "Policing the Health of London: The College of Physicians and the Early Stuart Monarchy," in Social History of Medicine, 2: pp. 1–33.
  • "Physicians and the New Philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the Virtuosi-Physicians," in Medical Revolution in the 17th Century, Roger French and Andrew Wear eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 246–271.
  • "The Medical Profession in London," in The Age of William III and Mary II: Power, Politics and Patronage, 1688-1702, Martha Hamilton-Phillips and Robert P. Maccubbin eds. Williamsburg: College of William and Mary, pp. 186–194.

1987

  • "The Society of Chemical Physicians, the New Philosophy, and the Restoration Court," in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 61: pp. 61–77.

1985

  • "Against Common Right and Reason: The College of Physicians Against Dr. Thomas Bonham," in American Journal of Legal History, 29 : pp. 301–24.

1980

  • "Early Research on the Biological Effects of Microwave Radiation, 1940-1960" (with Nicholas Steneck, Arthur Vander, and Gordon Kane), Annals of Science, 37 (1980): pp. 323–51.
  • "The Origins of U.S. Safety Standards for Microwave Radiation" (with Nicholas Steneck, Arthur Vander, and Gordon Kane), Science, 248: pp. 1230–37.

1978

  • "Ancient Wisdom, The Golden Age, and Atlantis: The New World in Sixteenth-Century Cosmography," in Terrae Incognitae, 10: pp. 25–43.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Columbia University: faculty bio

External links edit

  • Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  • Yale University Press: Episode #6: podcast interview with Prof. Cook 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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of the history of medicine are unfolding in the context of recent developments in global history 1 Cook is co editor of the journal Medical History serves on a number of advisory boards and professional bodies and has been elected to an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians 1 Contents 1 Academic career 2 Publications 2 1 Books 2 2 Articles and contributions 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksAcademic career editProf Cook s academic career has evolved across decades 1 1974 BA Cornell College 1975 MA University of Michigan 1981 PhD University of Michigan 1982 assistant professor Harvard University 1985 assistant professor University of Wisconsin Madison 1988 associate professor University of Wisconsin Madison 1993 professor University of Wisconsin Madison 2000 2009 director The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL 2010 John F Nickoll Professor of History Brown UniversityIn Matters of Exchange 2007 Cook argues that engaging in international trade changed the thinking of the Dutch and those with whom they came in contact He suggests that the preference for accurate information which accompanied the rise of commerce also laid the groundwork for the rise of science globally The book documents the developments in medicine and natural history were fundamental aspects of this new science It was a runner up for the 2008 Cundill Prize Publications editBooks edit 2018 The Young Descartes Nobility Rumor and War University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0 226 46296 7 2007 Matters of Exchange Commerce Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 11796 7 cloth 1994 Trials of an Ordinary Doctor Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth Century London Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 978 0 8018 4778 3 cloth 1986 The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London Ithaca Cornell University Press ISBN 978 0 8014 1850 1 cloth Articles and contributions edit 2006 What Stays Constant at the Heart of Medicine Editorial British Medical Journal BMJ 333 23 December 2006 pp 1281 1282 Medicine in The Cambridge History of Science vol 3 Early Modern Science ed Katherine Park and Loraine Daston Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 407 434 Introduction to The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000 Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 1 6 Das Wissen von den Sachen in Seine Welt Wissen Enzyklopadien in der Fruhen Neuzeit ed Ulrich Johannes Schneider Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG pp 81 124 trans into German by Jan Neerso 2005 Global economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature in Colonial Botany Science Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World ed Claudia Swan and Londa Schiebinger Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press pp 100 118 299 302 Medical Communication in the First Global Age Willem ten Rhijne in Japan 1674 1676 in Academia Sinica no 11 2004 pp 16 36 2004 Thomas Bonham Richard Boulton Sir John Colbatch Abraham Cyprianus Sir George Ent Charles Goodall Joannes Groenevelt John Hutton John Marten Thomas O Dowde John Pechey William Rose Thomas Sydenham William Trigge Mary Trye in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford Oxford University Press Health The Lancet 364 pp 1481 Early Modern Medicine in Encarta Encyclopedia World English edition 2003 Medicine Materialism Globalism The Example of the Dutch Golden Age Professorial inaugural lecture UCL 27 February 2003 Download PDF text permanent dead link 2002 Bernard Mandeville in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy ed Steven Nadler Oxford Blackwell Publishing pp 469 482 Body and Passions Materialism and the Early Modern State in Osiris 17 pp 25 48 2001 Time s Bodies Crafting the Preparation and Preservation of Naturalia Merchants and Marvels ed Paula Findlen and Pamela Smith London Routledge pp 237 247 Fines and Fortunes Recognition and Regulation of Practitioners for the First 200 Years in The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections ed G Davenport W Ian McDonald and Caroline Moss Gibons London Royal College of Physicians pp 28 30 Medicine and Health in Tudor England An Encyclopedia ed Arthur F Kinney and David W Swain London Garland pp 475 479 2000 Boerhaave and the Flight from Reason in Medicine in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74 2000 pp 221 240 1999 Bernard Mandeville and the Therapy of the Clever Politician in Journal of the History of Ideas 60 1999 pp 101 124 1998 Closed Circles or Open Networks Communicating at a Distance During the Scientific Revolution with David Lux History of Science 36 pp 179 211 1997 From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory in Western Medicine An Illustrated History ed Irvine Loudon Oxford Oxford University Press pp 80 101 paperback ed 2001 1996 Institutional Structures and Personal Belief in the London College of Physicians in Religio Medici Medicine and Religion in 17th Century England ed Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham Aldershot Scolar Press pp 91 114 Natural History and Seventeenth Century Dutch and English Medicine in The Task of Healing Medicine Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands 1450 1800 Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling eds Rotterdam Erasmus Publishing pp 253 270 Physicians and Natural History in Cultures of Natural History ed Nicholas Jardine James A Secord and Emma Spary Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 91 105 The Moral Economy of Natural History and Medicine in the Dutch Golden Age in Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries William Z Shetter and Inge Van der Cruysse eds Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies vol 9 Lanham Maryland University Press of America pp 39 47 1995 Medical Ethics History of IV Europe B Renaissance and Enlightenment in Encyclopedia of Bioethics revised edition Warren T Reich ed New York Macmillan Vol 3 pp 1537 1543 1994 Good Advice and Little Medicine The Professional Authority of Early Modern English Physicians in Journal of British Studies 33 pp 1 31 1993 Medicine in Encyclopedia of Social History ed Peter N Stearns New York Garland pp 459 462 The Cutting Edge of a Revolution Medicine and Natural History near the Shores of the North Sea in Renaissance and Revolution Humanists Scholars Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe ed J V Field and Frank A J L James Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 45 61 1992 The New Philosophy in the Low Countries in The Scientific Revolution in National Context ed Roy Porter amp M Teich Cambridge Cambridge University Press p 115 149 1991 Physick and Natural History in Seventeenth Century England in Revolution and Continuity Essays in the History of Philosophy of Early Modern Science R Ariew and P Barker eds Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy vol 24 Washington D C Catholic University of America Press pp 63 80 1990 The New Philosophy and Medicine in Seventeenth Century England in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution ed David Lindberg and Robert Westman Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 397 436 Sir John Colbatch and Augustan Medicine Experimentalism Character and Entrepreneurialism in Annals of Science 47 pp 475 505 The Rose Case Reconsidered Physic and the Law in Augustan England in Journal of the History of Medicine 45 pp 527 555 Practical Medicine and the British Armed Forces After the Glorious Revolution in Medical History 34 1990 1 26 Charles Webster s Analysis of Puritanism and Science in Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science The Merton Thesis ed I Bernard Cohen New Brunswick Rutgers University Press pp 265 300 1989 Policing the Health of London The College of Physicians and the Early Stuart Monarchy in Social History of Medicine 2 pp 1 33 Physicians and the New Philosophy Henry Stubbe and the Virtuosi Physicians in Medical Revolution in the 17th Century Roger French and Andrew Wear eds Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 246 271 The Medical Profession in London in The Age of William III and Mary II Power Politics and Patronage 1688 1702 Martha Hamilton Phillips and Robert P Maccubbin eds Williamsburg College of William and Mary pp 186 194 1987 The Society of Chemical Physicians the New Philosophy and the Restoration Court in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 61 pp 61 77 1985 Against Common Right and Reason The College of Physicians Against Dr Thomas Bonham in American Journal of Legal History 29 pp 301 24 1980 Early Research on the Biological Effects of Microwave Radiation 1940 1960 with Nicholas Steneck Arthur Vander and Gordon Kane Annals of Science 37 1980 pp 323 51 The Origins of U S Safety Standards for Microwave Radiation with Nicholas Steneck Arthur Vander and Gordon Kane Science 248 pp 1230 37 1978 Ancient Wisdom The Golden Age and Atlantis The New World in Sixteenth Century Cosmography in Terrae Incognitae 10 pp 25 43 See also editWellcome Library Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of MedicineReferences edit a b c d Columbia University faculty bioExternal links editWellcome Trust Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL Archived 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine Yale University Press Episode 6 podcast interview with Prof Cook Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Harold J Cook amp oldid 1129859818, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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