Helen Caldicott AKA Helen Mary Broinowski Caldicott Born: 7-Aug-1938 Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Female Religion: Agnostic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Activist, Doctor Nationality: Australia Executive summary: Anti-nuclear crusader Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott is a long-time activist against nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and the use of "depleted" but still dangerously radioactive uranium in weapons. She served as President of Physicians for Social Responsibility from 1978-83, then left that group when she came to be perceived as more radical than many of its members. She has said that her initial interest in disarmament came after reading Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel On the Beach in her early teens. Father: Theo Philip Broinowski (factory manager, b. 1910) Mother: Mary Mona Enyd Coffey Broinowski (interior designer, b. 1911, d. 1969) Son: Susan Broinowski (psychologist) Brother: Richard Broinowski (diplomat) Husband: William Caldicott (physician, m. circa 1962, sep. 1988, three children) Daughter: Penelope Mary Caldicott (physician) Son: Philip Caldicott Son: William Caldicott, Jr.
High School: Fintona Girls School, Balwyn, Australia University: MD, University of Adelaide (1951) Teacher: Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School (1977-78) Teacher: New School for Social Research (1995-96) Teacher: Women's Studies, Rutgers University (2001-02)
Humanist of the Year 1982 Thomas Merton Award 1979 Physicians for Social Responsibility President (1978-83) American Association for the Advancement of Science Irish Ancestry
Polish Ancestry
Official Website: http://www.helencaldicott.com/
Author of books:
Nuclear Madness (1979) Missile Envy (1985) If You Love This Planet (1992) A Desperate Passion (1996, autobiography) Metal of Dishonor: How Depleted Uranium Penetrates Steel, Radiates People and Contaminates the Environment (1997) The New Nuclear Danger (2002) Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer (2006) War In Heaven (2007, with Craig Eisendrath)
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