Progressive Era Medicine and Reform

by Prof. Hangen - March 1st, 2017

On your own, enjoy exploring some of these links to give you a flavor for the Progressive Era and the interwoven public health, women’s rights and labor reform movements.

Alice Hamilton (Burnham p. 228-229)

Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine (National Historic Chemical Landmark, American Chemical Society)

Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (1943)

Alice Hamilton, Industrial Poisoning in Making Coal-Tar Dyes and Dye Intermediates (1921)

Excerpt from Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) (handed out in class on Wed Mar 1)

Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Lewis Hine, “Child Labor in the Canning Industry in Maryland” (1909)

National Child Labor Committee Collection (photos of Lewis Hine / Library of Congress)

“Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches” (Learn NC Digital History)

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