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Alice Hamilton: A LIFE IN LETTERS
Barbara Sicherman
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Description for Alice Hamilton: A LIFE IN LETTERS
Paperback. 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. This title gives her biography. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 650.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071522
SKU
V9780252071522
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Reviews for Alice Hamilton: A LIFE IN LETTERS
"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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more