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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Coma (1977) 2,359 exemplar
Chromosome 6 (1997) 1,691 exemplar
Outbreak (1987) 1,625 exemplar
Contagion (1995) 1,608 exemplar
Toxin (1997) 1,566 exemplar
Vector (1999) 1,463 exemplar
Lyckopillret (1994) 1,462 exemplar
Marker (2005) 1,278 exemplar
Fatal Cure (1994) 1,275 exemplar
Shock (2001) 1,221 exemplar
Crisis (2006) 1,210 exemplar
Invasion (1997) 1,190 exemplar
Terminal (1993) 1,189 exemplar
Blind vrede (1992) 1,180 exemplar
Seizure (2003) 1,166 exemplar
Mutation (1989) 1,158 exemplar
Sphinx (1979) 1,148 exemplar
Brain (1981) 1,108 exemplar
Feber (1982) 1,096 exemplar
Ont uppsåt (1990) 1,088 exemplar
Abduction (2000) 1,087 exemplar
Mortal Fear (1988) 1,050 exemplar
Critical (2007) 1,042 exemplar
Liv till salu (1991) 955 exemplar
Godplayer (1983) 931 exemplar
Manipulator (1985) 924 exemplar
Foreign Body (2008) 858 exemplar
Intervention (2009) 726 exemplar
Cure (2010) 591 exemplar
Death Benefit (2011) 449 exemplar
Nano (2013) 388 exemplar
Cell (2014) 363 exemplar
The Year Of The Intern (1972) 352 exemplar
Host (2015) 282 exemplar
Pandemic (2018) 245 exemplar
Charlatans (2017) 223 exemplar
Genesis (2019) 177 exemplar
Viral (2021) 104 exemplar
Night Shift (2022) 79 exemplar
Coma [1978 film] (1978) — Författare — 34 exemplar
Autopsie (1994) 20 exemplar
Vector / Contagion (2004) 18 exemplar
Toxin/Chromosome 6 Duo (Spl) (2004) 17 exemplar
Coma [and] Abduction (2008) 9 exemplar
Brain / Fatal Cure (1999) 6 exemplar
Aivot ; Kuume (1991) 4 exemplar
Toxin / Schock (2006) 3 exemplar
Robin Cook's virus 1 exemplar
Shattered 1 exemplar
Agy ; Szfinx (1998) 1 exemplar
Sphinx/Fever (2000) 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Cook, Robin
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Cook, Robert William Arthur
Födelsedag
1940-05-04
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
New York, New York, USA
Bostadsorter
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Naples, Florida, USA
Queens, New York, USA
Leonia, New Jersey, USA
Utbildning
Wesleyan University (BS)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD|1966)
Harvard Medical School (residency)
Yrken
physician
novelist
Organisationer
United States Navy
Woodrow Wilson Center's Board of Trustees
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Kort biografi
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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First of all, Robin Cook surprised me with this here novel. This is way different from his standard fare which admittedly is already quite readable. With this effort though he clearly reinvented himself. This is quite Michael Crichtonesque and less Robin Cook.

The premise: (stated in a few key words) Exploration, Deep Sea, Secret Base,
The argument: Add the traditional characters and interaction (three stooges/hillbillies, the rational scientist, the unyielding military man, the arbiter - a rich tycoon) trying through dialogue (extrapolation, induction, deduction) to solve a baffling mystery within a plot reminiscent of the classic Jules Verne and H . Rider Haggard works.
... And the conclusion is: right up my alley😊

Highlights in quote: "None of them are Russians. - Well, none of them are Americans neither. There is not a single overweight person.😁
"You are delightedly primitive". -"You are yanking my chain..." - Not at all... Not at all.😁
… (mer)
 
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nitrolpost | 14 andra recensioner | Mar 19, 2024 |
I was a Robin Cook fan. His recent books have gone downhill. I read about only 10%. I have not finished his last several books.
My notes next to Genesis, Cure, Charletons, and Night Shift, reflect the following annotations, DNF, DNC, did not finish, did not care.
 
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jstjst | 4 andra recensioner | Mar 9, 2024 |
Unimaginative plot. High-school-level writing; maybe less. No depth in the science. Pathetically lame sex/romance thrown in.

For a book published in 2014, the idea of centralized, automated medical care is not surprising. Would've been a more interesting book to hear all the roadblocks that prevent such a concept from being deployed and keep the practice of medicine as poor as it is.
 
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donwon | 15 andra recensioner | Jan 22, 2024 |
A modern (as of 1989) reimagining of Frankenstein, in this case an OB/Gyn who tries to bioengineer his own special genius child. Except the resulting monster is just a caricature bad seed monster I couldn't pity or empathize with, and the doctor is also a monster who I couldn't pity or empathize with. So it's a mostly entertaining story, but only barely worth spending the time to read it.

Hardcover, picked up on a clearance shelf somewhere for $2.00
 
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Doodlebug34 | 17 andra recensioner | Jan 1, 2024 |

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Medlemmar
38,216
Popularitet
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Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
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ISBN
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Språk
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Favoritmärkt
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