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Wellcome Trust Centre For The History Of Medicine
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000-2012) was a research and teaching centre within University College London dedicated to the history of medicine. It was created through a grant from the Wellcome Trust, on the model of otheWellcome Trust Centres as a national and international centre of excellence in its field. As a university department, it was administered by an internal governance committee chaired by the Centre's Director, who was in turn advised by an international committee of external academic specialists in the history of science and medicine; until 2009, the Director reported to the Dean of Life Sciences and a governing committee on which the dean also sat. History The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL was a successor organization to the earlier Wellcome Historical Medical Research Library (ca. 1913-1968) and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1968-1999). It was succeeded by the UCL Centre for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Cook (medical Historian)
Harold John Cook (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.Columbia University faculty bio/ref> 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. 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. Academic career Prof. Cook's academic career has evolved acros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |