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Alice Hamilton : A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-100252071522

ISBN-139780252071522

eBay Product ID (ePID)2469440

Product Key Features

Number of Pages488 Pages

Publication NameAlice Hamilton : Alife in Letters

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectMedical

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography

AuthorBarbara Sicherman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight23.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-040290

Dewey Edition21

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, "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

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal616.9/803/092 B

SynopsisBiography of a pioneer in industrial toxicology in the US, covering her lifes work from the early 1920's to the Vietnam War.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 ......, 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.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.

LC Classification NumberR154.H238S53 2003