ISBN: 9780674424159

She was first considered subversive during World War I, yet she lived to protest our involvement in Vietnam. She was America's foremost industrial toxicologist, a pioneer in medicine and … More...

She was first considered subversive during World War I, yet she lived to protest our involvement in Vietnam. She was America's foremost industrial toxicologist, a pioneer in medicine and in social reform, long-time resident of Hull House, pacifist and civil libertarian. She was Edith Hamilton's sister, and the first woman on the faculty of Harvard, though she retired—an assistant professor in the school of public health—ten years before women medical students were admitted.This legendary figure now comes to life in an integrated work of biography and letters. A keen observer and an extraordinarily complex woman, Alice Hamilton left a rich correspondence, spanning the period from 1888 to 1965, that forms a journal of her times as well as of her life. The letters document the range of her involvement, from the battle against lead poisoning to debates with Felix Frankfurter over civil liberties. But as Alice Hamilton describes a woman's medical education in the late nineteenth century, her unlikely adventures in city slums, mine shafts, and factories, her work with Jane Addams and the women's peace movement, we also witness the stages of one woman's evolution from self-deprecating girl to leading social advocate. The charming details of her girlhood help us to understand her conflicted need to escape Victorian constraints without violating her own notion of femininity, a dilemma resolved only by a career combining science with service.Beautifully realized works themselves, these letters have been woven by Barbara Sicherman into an exemplary biography that opens a window on the Progressive era. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>Science Biog,Memoir>Science Biog,Memoir, Harvard Core >2<

1984, ISBN: 0674424158

[EAN: 9780674424159], Neubuch, [PU: Harvard University Press], MEDIZIN PHYSICIANS -- UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY. TOXICOLOGISTS HAMILTON, ALICE, 1869-1970. SCIENCE / HISTORY BIOGRAPHY & AUTOB… More...

[EAN: 9780674424159], Neubuch, [PU: Harvard University Press], MEDIZIN PHYSICIANS -- UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY. TOXICOLOGISTS HAMILTON, ALICE, 1869-1970. SCIENCE / HISTORY BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY WOMEN, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. One of the most fulfilling books about the life and work of a physician that I have read in many a year. A beautiful piece of scholarship and a book that is a pleasure to read and to think about.In our age without heroes, it is both refreshing and valu., Books<

2014, ISBN: 9780674424159

Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2014, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: Alice Hamilton, Titelzusatz: A Life in Letters, Autor: Sicherman, Barbara, Verlag: Harvard University Press, Sprache… More...

Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2014, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: Alice Hamilton, Titelzusatz: A Life in Letters, Autor: Sicherman, Barbara, Verlag: Harvard University Press, Sprache: Englisch, Rubrik: Medizin // Allgemeines, Lexika, Seiten: 484, Informationen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Gewicht: 846 gr, Verkäufer: averdo Belletristik, [PU: Harvard University Press]<

2014, ISBN: 0674424158

Gebundene Ausgabe, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Harvard University Press]

2014, ISBN: 0674424158

Gebundene Ausgabe, met couverture 11, [PU:Harvard University Press]