To date, he has explored issues such as organ donation, genetic engineering,fertility treatment, medical research funding, managed care, medical malpractice, drug research, drug pricing, specialty hospitals, stem cells, and organ transplantation.ĭr.

In each of his novels, he strives to write about the issues at the forefront of current medical practice. Cook's profession as a doctor has provided him with ideas and background for many of his novels. During his navy career he served on a nuclear submarine for a seventy-five day stay underwater where he wrote his first book! Ĭook was a private member of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Board of Trustees, appointed to a six-year term by the President George W. Intrigued by diving, he later called on a connection he made through Jacques Cousteau to become an aquanaut with the US Navy Sealab when he was drafted in the 60's. Cook's medical thrillers are designed, in part, to make the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical conundrums.Ĭook got a taste of the larger world when the Cousteau Society recruited him to run its blood - gas lab in the South of France while he was in medical school. He has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce a succession of bestselling books.

He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

He divides his time between homes in Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts where he lives with his wife Jean. He finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard that included general surgery and ophthalmology. Many have been made into motion pictures.Ĭook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine. Many were also featured in the Literary Guild. A number of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have been bestsellers on the 'New York Times' Bestseller List with several at #1.

He is best known for being the author who created the medical-thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. Robin Cook (born in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health. Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.ĭr.

Blindsight by Robin Cook