Henry David Abraham
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Henry David Abraham (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1942), is an American physician, specializing in psychiatry. Abraham played principal roles in two physician groups opposed to nuclear weapons: the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985; and its predecessor organization in the United States, Physicians for Social Responsibility. He was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
Education
Abraham completed his undergraduate studies in 1963 at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was valedictorian. He received his medical degree in 1967 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing postgraduate training in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1968, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1971-1974.
Career
In 1982 Abraham served as consultant to the Institute of Medicine's report Marijuana and Health,[1] as well as to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III-R). His research led to the recognition of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD), and its inclusion in the diagnostic lexicon of psychiatry. He joined the faculty at Tufts in 2008. Prior to that, he taught for three years at Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island and was on the faculty for more than 30 years at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Abraham also served as Director of Psychiatric Research at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston for 12 years and directed the substance abuse program at the Tufts New England Medical Center for three years.
In addition to publishing numerous academic papers, Abraham is the author of What's a Parent To Do? Straight Talk on Drugs and Alcohol (New Horizon Press, 2004).[2] and The No Nonsense Guide to Drugs and Alcohol.[3]
Antinuclear activities and the Nobel Prize
Abraham is one of the founders of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. Earlier, he was instrumental in the revival of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a United States’ antinuclear doctors’ group, which gave rise to the IPPNW and continues as the international group’s U.S. affiliate.[4][5]
Physicians for Social Responsibility
PSR was started in 1961 by Boston, Massachusetts-based doctors, including Dr. Bernard Lown, a cardiologist and co-inventor of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation. The early PSR published articles in the New England Journal of Medicine that outlined the dangers of nuclear weapons.
References
- ^ Marijuana and Health.. National Academy Press. 1982.
- ^ Abraham, MD, Henry David (2004). What's a Parent to Do? Straight Talk on Drugs and Alcohol. New Horizon Press. ISBN 0-88282-250-0. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
- ^ "Publications: Henry David Abraham". U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
- ^ Lown, Bernard (2008). Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness (PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-57675-785-7 Lown, Bernard. Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness . Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition. ed.). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-57675-482-5.
- ^ Caldicott, Helen (March, 1986). "PSR History". The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 42 (3): 57 – via https://books.google.ms/books?id=kwYAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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