Harold Cook
Professor

Harold J. Cook, John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University; previously Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Recipient of the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society (2009) and the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (1997), he is author of four books, and co-editor of six others, together with numerous articles.
CONFERENCES
Producing Commensurability and Translation: Methods from Early Modern Dutch Commerce
Dans le cadre du séminaire « Savoirs et productions du monde au XVIe siècle. Lieux, acteurs, échelles », animé par Antonella Romano, Jean-Marc Besse, Rafael Mandressi
To discuss the ways in which some kinds of knowledge were exchanged in and communicated from the overseas Dutch commercial empire, and why that knowledge was so closely associated with materialism, helping to foster the growth of natural science.
- Mercredi 15 mars, 17h-20h, EHESS (Salle 2, RdC) - 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris
Early Modern Dutch Empire and the Proofs of the Existence of Mermaids
Dans le cadre du séminaire « La race à l'âge moderne : expériences, classifications, idéologies d'exclusion », animé par Pietro Corsi, Jean-Frédéric Schaub et Silvia Sebastiani
To discuss late 17th and early 18th-century Dutch natural history of the southern oceans with special concern for the example of evidence of mermaids
- Mardi 21 mars, 9h-13h, EHESS (Salle 3, RdC) - 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris
Cartesian physiology and the threat of medical materialism
Dans le cadre du séminaire « Histoire de la médecine et des savoirs sur le corps » animé par Anne Carol et Rafael Mandressi,
To discuss the development of René Descartes’ medical physiology in light of contemporary Epicureanism, and the way it took root in the medical faculties of the low countries, stimulating an interest in the analysis of the passions that gave rise to Bernard Mandeville’s anti-Louis XIV « Fable of the Bees ».
- Vendredi 24 mars, 17h-19h, EHESS (Salle 1) - 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris
Making Things Work: The Dutch Revolt and Practical Sciences
Dans le cadre du séminaire « Savoirs et productions du monde au XVIe siècle. Lieux, acteurs, échelles », animé par Antonella Romano, Jean-Marc Besse, Rafael Mandressi (séance mutualisée avec le séminaire « Corps, textes et sociétés : les médecins et la saisie du monde dans la première modernité », animé par Elisa Andretta et Rafael Mandressi)
To discuss the development of the Scientific Revolution in the Dutch Republic in light of the institutions and pressures of a well-connected region in the throes of a military revolt.
- Mercredi 29 mars 2017, 17h-20h,EHESS (Salle 2, RdC) - 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris