Chester Middlebrook Pierce

Chester Middlebrook Pierce ( born March 4, 1927 in Glen Cove, Long Iceland, New York) is a black American psychiatrist who conducted research at Harvard University and taught. He was Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health 's Department of behaviorial sciences and is part of the University today as emeritus professor. Almost 25 years ago he was also a psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Biography

Growing up in a town on Long Iceland in the U.S. state of New York, earned a bachelor Pierce in 1948 from Harvard University. In his student days he was on 11 October 1947, the first black American football player in the South - even in times of racial segregation - at a university for white students took (see History of the University of Virginia). Pierce served in the U.S. Navy and was promoted to Commander ( comparable to a frigate captain ).

1952 Pierce earned a medical degree (MD) at Harvard Medical School. 1966-1967 studied Pierce along with Jay T. Shurlay the psychophysiology of men in sleep and wakefulness before, during, and after spending time at the South Pole Station. 1977 Pierce was the U.S. delegate ( of the National Academy of Sciences ) for the Working Group on Human Biology and Medicine of the International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Pierce was also President of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology ( ABPN ).

In the 1980s, Pierce was chairman of the Committee for polar Biomedicine ( Committee on Polar Biomedicine ) of the polar research committee of the National Research Council of the USA ( United States National Research Council ).

After 28 years of teaching Pierce went in the spring of 1996 to retire. He is a senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (Massachusetts ).

Pierce has published more than 180 articles, reviews and books. His research topics were especially extreme environmental conditions - especially medical research in polar or generally cold areas - further media and sports medicine as well as racism. In dealing with the issue of racism Pierce led the concepts of micro - aggression and micro - traumas and spoke of racism as an environmental pollutant (environmental pollutant ).

Pierce was also a senior consultant for the Peace Corps, a national consultant to the President physician of the U.S. Air Force ( Surgeon General of the United States Air Force) as well as a consultant for educational children's television shows Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Awards

Pierce has received numerous awards, including the Special Recognition Award from the U.S. National Medical Association ( an organization of black physicians in the U.S. ) and the appointment of an honorary member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists ( Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists ) and " honorary member of the British Royal College of psychiatrists (British Royal College of Psychiatrists ). Moreover Pierce holds an honorary doctorate from London's Westfield College and Tufts University.

Were named after Chester Pierce scholarships for black medical students who are interested in research, ( Chester Pierce Scholars psychiatry department of the National Medical Association ) and the Antarctic Pierce Peak. Pierce also won in the U.S. and abroad prices for film productions.

Quote

Especially in conservative religious circles in the U.S., the following quote is from Chester Pierce led, in slightly different versions:

Further Reading

Ezra EH Griffith ( 1998). Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce. Iowa City, Iowa: University Of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0877456285 ( Griffith is also a black psychiatrist at Harvard University, but with a different ethnic background)