Caldicott, Helen

LC control no.	n 79085599
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Caldicott, Helen *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Caldicott, H. (Helen) Caldicott, Helen Mary Caldicott, Helen Broinowski Broinowski, Helen Broinowski Caldicott, Helen
Associated country	Australia United States
Birth date	1938-08-07
Place of birth	Melbourne (Vic.)
Field of activity	Medical science Pediatrics Nuclear weapons
Affiliation	Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.) Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Medical Center (Boston, Mass.) University of Adelaide. Medical School
Profession or occupation	Physicians Medical scientists Teachers Authors
Found in	Her Nuclear madness, 1979: t.p. (Helen Caldicott) verso t.p. (Helen M. Caldicott) p. 5 (Dr.; practices at Boston's Children's Hosp. Med. Center) A desperate passion, 1996: CIP t.p. (Helen Broinowski Caldicott, M.D.) Message for the coming time, 1983: t.p. (H. Caldicott) Crisis without end, 2014: t.p. (Helen Caldicott) p. 243 (Dr. Helen Caldicott; co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org) OCLC, February 11, 2015 (hdg.: Caldicott, Helen Broinowski; Caldicott, Helen (Helen Mary), 1938-; usage: Helen Broinowski Caldicott; Helen Caldicott) Wikipedia, February 11, 2015 (Helen Mary Caldicott; b. August 7, 1938; Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate) Encyclopaedia Britannica website, February 11, 2015 (Helen Broinowski Caldicott was born on August 7, 1938, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. Australian-born American physician and activist whose advocacy focused on the medical and environmental hazards of nuclear weapons. She graduated in 1961 from the University of Adelaide Medical School with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees (the equivalent of an American M.D.). She began her antinuclear activism in 1971. In 1975 Caldicott and her family moved to the United States. Settling in Boston, she became an associate at Children's Hospital Medical Center and an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (1977-80). In 1978 Caldicott revived an organization known as Physicians for Social Responsibility and redirected its focus to the health risks posed by nuclear power. She founded a Washington, D.C., lobbying group, Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, in 1980) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Broinowski-Caldicott>
Associated language	eng