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Alice Hamilton — the sister who wrote the handbooks

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Alice Hamilton in an anatomy class (1893) Public domain · source file

1869–1970 · RAISED IN FORT WAYNE

In brief. Edith's younger sister Alice, born in New York City on 27 February 1869 and raised on the same Clinton-and-Lewis estate, wrote the books that founded a medical field: Industrial Poisons in the United States (1925) and Industrial Toxicology (1934), the handbooks of the occupational medicine she created out of her Hull House investigations, and the autobiography Exploring the Dangerous Trades (1943), which remains the readable door into her life. Her full story — the Fort Wayne College of Medicine anatomy year, Harvard's first woman faculty appointment, the League of Nations Health Committee — is told in People; she is entered here because the Fort Wayne author's shelf begins, after Edith, with her.

Sources: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, "The Fort Wayne Hamilton Family" (2020); Ritchie, Fort Wayne Area Authors; the books themselves. Full profile: People.

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Source: Alice Hamilton — the sister who wrote the handbooks, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/authors-books/alice-hamilton-the-sister-who-wrote-the-handbooks/

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