Harold Cook is John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University and from 2000 to 2010 served as Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. He has a general interest in the history of medicine and related subjects, and in the early modern period, while his research has been mostly on the 17th century, in recent years focusing on the relationships between commerce, medicine and science in the Dutch Golden Age. He has held several fellowships and has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including two book prizes: the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (1997) and the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society (2009).