Harry Perlstadt

Harry Perlstadt , Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Michigan State University and served for five years as Director of the MSU Bioethics, Humanities, and Society Program. He has worked on evaluations of community health delivery for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, safe and drug-free school curricula for the Michigan Department of Community Health, and national environmental health polices and action plans in Europe for the World Health Organization/Europe. He is active in the...See more

Harry Perlstadt , Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Michigan State University and served for five years as Director of the MSU Bioethics, Humanities, and Society Program. He has worked on evaluations of community health delivery for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, safe and drug-free school curricula for the Michigan Department of Community Health, and national environmental health polices and action plans in Europe for the World Health Organization/Europe. He is active in the American Public Health Association having served on its Science Board and represented the Ethics Section on its Governing Council. His publications include chapters on applied sociology in 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook , Ethics and Values in Sociological Practice in Doing Sociology: Case Studies in Sociological Practice , and The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement in Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives . He has published articles on Milgram's Obedience to Authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiments. He received the American Sociological Association's 2014 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. See less