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Robin Cook (1) (1940–)

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Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a toon meer football injury at his high school. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. Navy. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Robin Cook

Titels zijn toegeschreven aan Robin M. Cook.

Coma (1977) 2,359 exemplaren
Verminkt (1997) 1,691 exemplaren
Epidemie (1987) 1,625 exemplaren
Besmet (1995) 1,608 exemplaren
Vergiftigd (1997) 1,566 exemplaren
Ademnood (1999) 1,463 exemplaren
Risico (1994) 1,462 exemplaren
Diagnose (2005) 1,278 exemplaren
Fataal (1994) 1,275 exemplaren
Shock (2001) 1,221 exemplaren
Crisis (2006) 1,210 exemplaren
Invasie (1997) 1,190 exemplaren
Terminaal (1993) 1,189 exemplaren
Overdosis (1992) 1,180 exemplaren
Kloon (2003) 1,166 exemplaren
Manipulatie (1989) 1,158 exemplaren
Sfinx (1979) 1,148 exemplaren
Brein (1981) 1,108 exemplaren
Koorts (1982) 1,096 exemplaren
Narcose (1990) 1,088 exemplaren
Ontvoerd (2000) 1,086 exemplaren
Doodsangst (1988) 1,050 exemplaren
Kritiek (2007) 1,042 exemplaren
Embryo (1991) 955 exemplaren
Infuus (1983) 931 exemplaren
Experiment (1985) 924 exemplaren
Vreemd lichaam (2008) 858 exemplaren
Ingreep (2009) 726 exemplaren
Cure (2010) 591 exemplaren
Doodsakte (2011) 449 exemplaren
Nano (2013) 388 exemplaren
Cell (2014) 363 exemplaren
Intern (1972) 352 exemplaren
Host (2015) 282 exemplaren
Pandemic (2018) 245 exemplaren
Charlatans (2017) 222 exemplaren
Genesis (2019) 177 exemplaren
Viral (2021) 104 exemplaren
Night Shift (2022) 79 exemplaren
Coma [1978 film] (1978) — Auteur — 34 exemplaren
Autopsie (1994) 20 exemplaren
Vector / Contagion (2004) 18 exemplaren
Toxin/Chromosome 6 Duo (Spl) (2004) 17 exemplaren
Coma [and] Abduction (2008) 9 exemplaren
Brain / Fatal Cure (1999) 6 exemplaren
Aivot ; Kuume (1991) 4 exemplaren
Toxin / Schock (2006) 3 exemplaren
Robin Cook's virus 1 exemplaar
Shattered 1 exemplaar
Agy ; Szfinx (1998) 1 exemplaar
Sphinx/Fever (2000) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Cook, Robin
Officiële naam
Cook, Robert William Arthur
Geboortedatum
1940-05-04
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Naples, Florida, USA
Queens, New York, USA
Leonia, New Jersey, USA
Opleiding
Wesleyan University (BS)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD|1966)
Harvard Medical School (residency)
Beroepen
physician
novelist
Organisaties
United States Navy
Woodrow Wilson Center's Board of Trustees
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Korte biografie
Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.

He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide.

Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Woodside, Queens, New York City. He moved to Leonia, New Jersey when he was eight, where he could first have the "luxury" of having his own room. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard.

Cook ran the Cousteau Society's blood-gas lab in the south of France. He later became an aquanaut (a submarine doc) with the U.S. Navy's SEALAB program when he was drafted in 1969. Cook served in the Navy from 1969 to 1971, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. He wrote his first novel, Year of the Intern, while serving on the Polaris submarine USS Kamehameha.

The Year of the Intern was a failure, but Cook began to study bestsellers. He said, "I studied how the reader was manipulated by the writer. I came up with a list of techniques that I wrote down on index cards. And I used every one of them in Coma." He conceived the idea for Coma, about illegally creating a supply of transplant organs, in 1975. In March 1977, that novel's paperback rights sold for $800,000. It was followed by the Egyptology thriller Sphinx in 1979 and another medical thriller, Brain, in 1981. Cook then decided he preferred writing over a career in medicine.

Cook's novels combine medical fact with fantasy. His medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing socio-ethical problems which come along with it. Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the forum gives him "an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine that they didn't seem to know about. I believe my books are actually teaching people."

The author admits he never thought that he would have such compelling material to work with when he began writing fiction in 1970. "If I tried to be the writer I am today a number of years ago, I wouldn't have very much to write about. But today, with the pace of change in biomedical research, there are any number of different issues, and new ones to come," he says.

Cook's novels have anticipated national controversy. In an interview with Stephen McDonald about the novel Shock, Cook admitted the book's timing was fortuitous.

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65
Ook door
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Leden
38,214
Populariteit
#471
Waardering
½ 3.4
Besprekingen
566
ISBNs
1,862
Talen
27
Favoriet
60

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