Helen Caldicott recordings, talks and interviews, 1980-1994

MLOH 571

fonds

1980-1994

971131

Partly Digitised

37 audiocassettes (26 hr., 56 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Helen Broinowski 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.) and married William Caldicott, a physician, in 1962. She worked as a general practitioner and pediatric intern, then founded and directed a cystic fibrosis clinic at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide.

Caldicott began her antinuclear activism in 1971 with a warning to the Australian public about the potential consequences of the French government’s atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific.

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). There she published Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do! (1978; with Nancy Herrington and Nahum Stiskin), in which she explained the consequences of nuclear technology in vivid, accessible language.

Caldicott’s views on the nuclear industry were featured in the 1982 film If You Love This Planet, which was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Although it won an Academy Award, the U.S. Department of Justice declared the film political propaganda and monitored its distribution.

In 1984 Caldicott published Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War. A subsequent book, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992), addresses broader environmental issues. Later books included The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex (2002) and Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (2014). Caldicott’s autobiography, A Desperate Passion, was released in 1996.

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Item 01: ‘How to turn this country into a democracy’, lecture by Dr Helen Caldicott
Item 02: Nancy Pearlman and Dr Helen Caldicott, ‘New awareness of major environmental issues’
Item 03: ‘Medical consequences of nuclear weapons and war’, broadcast by KINK-FM
Item 04: Satellite program 1, ‘Physicians respond to the Nuclear Age / Rx for survival’
Item 05: Helen Caldicott, ‘Prescription for survival’
Item 06: Helen Caldicott, ‘Prescription for a nuclear survival’
Item 07: Helen Caldicott, ‘Critical Issues Women and Children Assembly’
Item 08: Char Bridenbaugh, ‘Recollections of Australia trip, 1976’
Item 09: Helen Caldicott interview by Larry King
Item 12: ‘The Crossroads of Time’ : Dr. Helen Caldicott, Santa Rosa, California
Item 13: Sally Field, Lily Tomlin, and Helen Caldicott speaking at WAND Press Conference, broadcast on WCRB Sunday Forum, 2 June 1985
Item 14: WAND : Beverly Sills, Goldie Hawn, Sally Field and Helen Caldicott
Item 15: WAND Press Conference : Jane Alexander, Meryl Streep, Margot Kidder and Helen Kidder
Item 16: Helen Caldicott at the National Press Club
Item 17: Helen Caldicott, WAMV-FM Kaleidoscope
Item 18: Helen Caldicott talk before California State officials, after Physicians for Social Responsibility Convention
Item 19: Address by Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School, at ‘The Medical Consequences of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War IV : Political and Economic Aspects’ symposium
Item 21: ‘Issues for saving the earth’ : afternoon keynote speech by Dr. Helen Caldicott at Wellesley College Peace Conference, ‘Non-violence or non-existence : options for the 21st century’
Item 22: Helen Caldicott interview by Gloria Minott
Item 25: Recordings of three election advertisements by Dr. Helen Caldicott, broadcast on 2NCR-FM
Item 26: ‘Star wars and other nuclear disasters’
Item 27: Radio program featuring Ernest Sternglass, Prof. Emeritus of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, and Dr. Jay M. Gould on the topics of nuclear testing, the effects of radiation on health and breast cancer, broadcast by WBAI-FM
Item 28: Barbara Donachy interview by Eric Glynn
Item 30: Dr. Helen Caldicott's farewell address, delivered at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Item 31: Recording of ‘Mass for Endangered Species’
Item 32: Recording of ‘Wake up call vol. I-III’
Item 33: Episode of CBC radio program ‘Ideas’, featuring Dr. Helen Caldicott's lecture ‘We the people : a prescription for ending the arms race’ and an interview with Caldicott by Sarah Wolch
Item 34: Recording of part of a U.S. Government hearing, with Dr. Harold Smith, Assistant to the Secretary for Atomic Energy, Dept. of Defence, interview by the Chair, Senator John Glenn
Item 35: ‘The Art of Mindful Living’ : recording of highlights of a five day retreat at Mundelein, Illinois, conducted by Thich Nhat Han
Item 36: Part of U.S. Government hearing on plutonium experiments on unsuspecting humans in U.S., broadcast by Pacifica Radio

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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Part of MLMSS 7799
Item 10: ‘Our Comfortable Lie: Time to Rise and Shine’, by Dr. Helen Caldicott (Call No.: MLOH 571/12) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.
Item 11: ‘Helen Caldicott Today at Oceanside, April 15, 1993’ (Call No.: MLOH 571/13) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.
Item 20: ‘Perfectly Clear: Essential Facts of the Nuclear Age’ by Dr. Helen Caldicott (Call No.: MLOH 571/22) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.
Item 23: ‘Building a progressive agenda’ by Dr. Helen Caldicott (Call No.: MLOH 571/25) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.
Item 24: ‘Nuclear power's threat to the environment’: address by Dr. Helen Caldicott at the Eco Expo Conference, 1993 (Call No.: MLOH 571/26-27) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.
Item 29: ‘On Beyond War’ issue no. 71 (July-August 1991) (Call No.: MLOH 571/31) - Not digitised - commercially produced tape.