Henry Wechsler
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Henry Wechsler was a non-tenured lecturer at the School of Public Health at Harvard University and a professor at Saint Joseph's University.
Wechsler is best known for his studies of drinking by college students and for popularizing the term “binge drinking” to refer to the consumption of four alcoholic drinks by a woman on an occasion and five alcoholic drinks by a man.[1]
Wechsler has conducted several surveys of college and university students across the United States and published extensively on the subject. His most recent book, written by Bernice Wuethrick, is Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses. (Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 2002).
[edit] External links
- Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study includes links to most publications from the College Alcohol Study.
- Dr. Wechsler's Home page includes his research interests and major publications.
