Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine


Further reading

Addams, Jane, Twenty Years at Hull-House, New York: New American Library, 1961.

Duis, Perry, Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Hamilton, Alice and Harriet Hardy, Industrial Toxicology, 3rd ed. Acton, MA: Publishing Sciences Group, 1974.

Hamilton, Alice, Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D., Beverly, MA: OEM Press, 1943.

Hamilton, Alice, Industrial Poisons in the United States, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925.

Hepler, Allison, Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890-1980, Columbus. OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000.

Sellers, Christopher, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Sicherman, Barbara, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

 

Acknowledgments

Written by Judah Ginsberg

Photo credits:
The University of Illinois at Chicago, The University Library, Jane Addams Memorial Collection (JAMC #154-Hull House, #399 and #512-Alice Hamilton, #2789-Jane Adams)
Alice Hamilton portrait: Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library
Factory photographs: Illinois Labor History Society and the McClean County Historical Society, Bloomington, Illinois.


 

back | home

 

Alice Hamilton: a long productive life | Hull-House | Hazards of the workplace | Industrial toxicology | Social activist |
Landmark designation | Further reading

Copyright ©2007 American Chemical Society. All Rights Reserved. 1155 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036
202-872-4600, 800-227-5558