Description
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), a pioneer in the study of diseases of the workplace, a founder of industrial toxicology in the United States, and Harvard's first woman professor, led a long and interesting life. Always a consummate professional, she was also a prominent social reformer whose interest in the environmental causes of disease and in promoting equitable living conditions developed during her years as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull-House.
This legendary figure now comes to life in an integrated work of biography and letters that reveals the personal as well as the professional woman. In documenting Hamilton's evolution from a childhood of privilege to a life of social advocacy, the volume opens a window on women reformers and their role in Progressive Era politics and reform. Because Hamilton was a keen observer and vivid writer, her letters--more than 100 are included here--bring an unmatched freshness and immediacy to a range of subjects, such as medical education; personal relationships and daily life at Hull House; the women's peace movement; struggles for the protection of workers' health; academic life at Harvard; politics and civil liberties during the cold war; and the process of growing old. Her story takes the reader from the Gilded Age to the Vietnam War.
Biography of a pioneer in industrial toxicology in the US, covering her lifes work from the early 1920's to the Vietnam War.
Reviews
"The book is a pleasure to read, no doubt in part because it conveys the lively intelligences of both Hamilton and Sicherman in an engaging and graceful duet." -- Martha Minow, Reviews in American History "An admirable book about an admirable subject... I cannot remember the last time I read a 'scholarly biography' with greater pleasure." -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Book Information
ISBN 9780252071522
Author Barbara Sicherman
Format Paperback
Page Count 488
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 653g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm
This legendary figure now comes to life in an integrated work of biography and letters that reveals the personal as well as the professional woman. In documenting Hamilton's evolution from a childhood of privilege to a life of social advocacy, the volume opens a window on women reformers and their role in Progressive Era politics and reform. Because Hamilton was a keen observer and vivid writer, her letters--more than 100 are included here--bring an unmatched freshness and immediacy to a range of subjects, such as medical education; personal relationships and daily life at Hull House; the women's peace movement; struggles for the protection of workers' health; academic life at Harvard; politics and civil liberties during the cold war; and the process of growing old. Her story takes the reader from the Gilded Age to the Vietnam War.
Biography of a pioneer in industrial toxicology in the US, covering her lifes work from the early 1920's to the Vietnam War.
Reviews
"The book is a pleasure to read, no doubt in part because it conveys the lively intelligences of both Hamilton and Sicherman in an engaging and graceful duet." -- Martha Minow, Reviews in American History "An admirable book about an admirable subject... I cannot remember the last time I read a 'scholarly biography' with greater pleasure." -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Book Information
ISBN 9780252071522
Author Barbara Sicherman
Format Paperback
Page Count 488
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 653g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm
