Prof Gordon Cook's Biography

Prof Gordon Cook's Professional Career

Career

cmmnd RAMC (Capt), seconded Royal Nigerian Army 1960-62; various appts Royal Free, Hampstead Gen, Royal Northern, Brompton and St George's Hosps 1958-63, lectr Royal Free Hosp Sch of Med and Makerere UC Uganda 1963-69; prof of med and conslt physician: Univ of Zambia 1969-74, Univ of Riyadh 1974-75, Univ of Papua New Guinea 1978-81; sr MO MRC 1975-76, sr lectr in clinical scis London Sch of Hygiene and Tropical Med 1976-97; hon conslt physician: Hosp for Tropical Diseases and UCLH 1976-97, St Luke's Hosp for the Clergy 1988-2009; visiting prof UCL 2000- (hon sr lectr in tropical med and infectious diseases 1981-2000), hon lectr in clinical parasitology Bart's Med Coll 1992-; research assoc Wellcome Tst Centre for the History of Medicine 1997-2002; visiting prof Univs of Basrah, Mosul and Doha; memb Editorial Bd: Jl of Infection (ed 1995-97), Postgraduate Medical Jl, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; examiner RCP 1977-84; pres: Royal Soc of Tropical Med and Hygiene 1993-95, Osler Club of London 1993-95, Fellowship of Postgrad Med 2000-07 (memb Cncl 1989-2007, vice-pres 1996-2000), History of Med Section RSM 2003-04 (vice-pres 1994-96); vice-pres Erasmus Darwin Fndn Lichfield 2011- (chm 1994-2011); tstee Bookpower (formerly Educnl Low-Priced Sponsored Texts (ELST)) 1996-2011; Seamen's Hosp Soc: hon archivist 2002-, hon life govr 2007-; research assoc Greenwich Maritime Inst Univ of Greenwich 2003-; memb Exec Ctee and examiner Faculty of History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy 1997-, memb Cncl Galton Inst 2005-09; vice-chair Friends of the Florence Nightingale Museum 2005-09; Frederick Murgatroyd meml prize RCP 1973; Hugh L'Etang Prize RSM 1999; Freeman City of London, Liveryman Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries 1981 (examiner Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries of London 1997-); memb various professional bodies incl: RSM 1962, MRS 1965, Br Soc of Gastroenterology 1968, Physiological Soc 1971, Assoc of Physicians of GB and I 1973, Med Soc of London 1976, Br Soc for the Study of Infection 1982, Soc of Authors 1985 (memb Cncl Med Writers' Gp 1995-, chm 1997-99), BMA, Harveian Soc, Hunterian Soc, JCHMT 1987-93; FRCP 1972, FRACP 1978, FLS 1989, FRCPE 2002, MRCS

Prof Gordon Cook's Publications

Books and Publications

Acute Renal Failure (jt ed, 1964), Tropical Gastroenterology (1980), 100 Clinical Problems in Tropical Medicine (jtly, 1987, 2 edn 1998), Communicable and Tropical Diseases (1988), Parasitic Disease in Clinical Practice (1990), From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St Pancras: a history of tropical disease in London (1992), Gastroenterological Problems from the Tropics (ed, 1995), Travel-associated Disease (ed, 1995), Manson's Tropical Diseases (ed, 20 edn 1996, 21 edn 2003, 22 edn 2009), Victorian Incurables: A History of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability, Putney (2004), John MacAlister's Other Vision: A History of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (2005), The Incurables Movement: An Illustrated History of The British Home (2006), Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of the Pioneers (2007), Disease in the Merchant Navy: A History of the Seamen's Hospital Society (2007), Health-care For All: History of a 'third world' dilemma (2009), Caribbean Diseases: Doctor George Low's expedition in 1901-02 (2009), Twenty-Six Portland Place: the early years of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2011), Torrid Disease: memoirs of a tropical physician in the late twentieth century (2011), Origin of a Medical Specialty: the Seaman's Hospital Society and Tropical Medicine (2012)

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