Harold J. Cook

Academic career

• 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
• 2025 - Retired from Brown University

Publications

Books

• 2018 – University of Chicago Press.
• 2007 – Yale University Press.
• 1994 – Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• 1986 – The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Articles and contributions

• Editorial, British Medical Journal 333 : 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, pp. 81–124.

• "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.
• , Willem ten Rhijne in Japan, 1674–1676, in Academia Sinica, no. 11 : pp. 16–36.

• "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.

• "Medicine, Materialism, Globalism: The Example of the Dutch Golden Age," Professorial inaugural lecture, UCL, 27 February 2003. .

• "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.

• "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.

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

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

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

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

• "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.

• "Medical Ethics, History of: IV. Europe: B. Renaissance and Enlightenment," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, revised edition, Warren T. Reich, ed.. : 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.

• "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.

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

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

• "Early Research on the Biological Effects of Microwave Radiation, 1940-1960", Annals of Science, 37 : pp. 323–51.
• "The Origins of U.S. Safety Standards for Microwave Radiation", Science, 248: pp. 1230–37.

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