Boston, Atlantic/Little, Brown, (1943). Hamilton's autobiography, inscribed by the author. Alice Hamilton earned the name “First Lady of Industrial Medicine” for pioneering a field dedicated to public health and safety. From the website of the American Chemical Society: "Alice Hamilton helped make the American workplace less dangerous. In her quest to uncover industrial toxins, Hamilton roamed the more dangerous parts of urban America, descended into mines, and finagled her way into factories reluctant to admit her. She is responsible for spearheading groundbreaking studies into the poisonous effects of lead, aniline dyes, carbon monoxide, mercury, tetraethyl lead, radium, benzene, chemicals in storage batteries, and carbon disulfide and hydrogen sulfide gases created in the manufacture of viscose rayon." She also worked with Jane Addams at Hull House, in Chicago, and applied her expertise to finding the causes for the high incidence of typhoid fever and tuberculosis in the surrounding community; she eventually became the first female (assistant) professor at Harvard Medical School. A near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. Illustrations by Norah Hamilton, Alice's sister. [#035631] SOLD