NWHM: Dr. Alice Hamilton
2009-03-18 | Filed Under Uncategorized |
“Living in a working-class quarter, coming in contact with laborers and their wives, I could not fail to hear tales of the dangers that workingmen faced. . . .” - Alice Hamilton
Born at the end of the American Industrial Revolution, Dr. Hamilton was among the first to advocate for the occupational health and safety of factory workers by personally acquainting herself with factory conditions, exhaustively researching medical problems in conjunction with suspected hazardous substances, and by loudly publicizing her findings.
For additional information, please see the Biography Resource Center, and the National Women’s History Project. For bibliographic information on Dr. Hamilton’s publications, please see the National Library of Medicine’s Indexcat and Changing the Face of Medicine series.
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