Prof Harold Cook

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Harold Cook is the John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University. His research interest lies in the history of medicine, particularly during the early modern period, and the relationship between commerce, medicine, and science. He has published extensively on early modern medicine, including Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (2007), Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London (1994), and The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London (1986). Cook is also co-editor of the journal Medical History>, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 2009 was awarded the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society.