Alice Hamilton

• Alice Hamilton
• March 1965 Issue

The first woman ever to teach at the Harvard Medical School, ALICE HAMILTON, M.D., was a pioneer in industrial medicine, working as a young assistant to Jane Addams in Hull House. Dr. Hamilton devised ways of prelecting our immigrant workers in the dangerous trades with such success that she was commissioned by President Wilson to pursue this quest with federal authority. Now in her nineties, she reviews the enormous progress in her chosen field.

• Alice Hamilton
• September 1961 Issue

American pioneer in industrial medicine, ALICE HAMILTON took her medical degree at the University of Michigan at a time when women doctors were as scarce as hen’s teeth, did graduate work in Germany and at Johns Hopkins, and then enlisted under Jane Addams at Hull-House. Her mission was the protection of workers in the dangerous trades. And her life, as she told it in her autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades, is a valiant record of a twentieth-century pioneer. Dr. Hamilton now lives in retirement at Hadlyme, Connecticut.

• Alice Hamilton
• September 1954 Issue

THIRTY-TWO YEARS have passed since Dr. Alice Hamilton began her exploration of industrial poisons. From her sheltered childhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and her study at Miss Porter’s School, she emerged with that scientific bent and that blazing courage which she needed as a pioneer. She took her M.D. at the University of Michigan, did graduate work in Germany and at Johns Hopkins, and then went as an ardent young recruit to Hull-House. Her life at Hull-House gained her the confidence of the immigrant communities and aroused her interest in industrial diseases. Then in 1910 Governor Deneen appointed her to a Commission to investigate white-lead poisoning in Illinois — and her lifework had begun. From the Federal government came a roving commission to explore the other poisonous trades, and off she went to discover the occupational dangers in porcelain enameling and oxide roasting. She fought against silicosis in the zinc and lead mines and in t he potteries. She investigated the painter’s trades and explored singlehanded the perilous manufacture of high explosives in 1917. Her work, which had now gained international recognition, was beginning to build for the future. . . .

• Alice Hamilton
• March 1943 Issue

• Alice Hamilton
• February 1943 Issue

• Alice Hamilton
• January 1943 Issue

• Alice Hamilton
• December 1942 Issue

• Alice Hamilton
• October 1933 Issue

• Marlowe Harris, Romaine L. Poindexter, Robert Withington, Hargrave Standen, P. Donnelly, Alice Hamilton, R. B. W., Grant Chandler, and Bill Adams
• May 1931 Issue