Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters - Couverture souple

Sicherman, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252071522 ISBN 13 : 9780252071522

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252071522
• ISBN 13: 9780252071522
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 488
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• Personne responsable: non disponible