Editing Alice Hamilton (section)

===Early years at Chicago's Hull House===
In 1897 Hamilton accepted an offer to become a professor of pathology at the [[Feinberg School of Medicine|Woman's Medical School]] of [[Northwestern University]]. Soon after her move to Chicago, Illinois, Hamilton fulfilled a longtime ambition to become a member and resident of [[Hull House]], the [[settlement house]] founded by social reformer [[Jane Addams]] and [[Ellen Gates Starr]].<ref name=NLibMed/><ref name=Landmark/><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters'', p. 111.</ref> While Hamilton taught and did research at the medical school during the day, she maintained an active life at Hull House, her full-time residence from 1897 to 1919.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X">{{cite web |url =http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html#designation-acknowledgments |title =Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine |publisher =American Chemical Society |work =National Historic Chemical Landmarks |access-date =May 2, 2017 |url-status =live |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170829161049/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html#designation-acknowledgments |archive-date =August 29, 2017 }}</ref>
On how Hull House had helped Hamilton to find her true self she said; It "''satisfied every longing, for companionship, for the excitement of new experiences, for constant intellectual stimulation, and for the sense of being caught up in a big movement which enlisted my enthusiastic loyalty.''"<ref>{{Cite news |last=GORNICK |first=VIVIAN |date=October 7, 1984 |title=Alice Hamilton's Factory Practice |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/10/07/alice-hamiltons-factory-practice/fddbe711-cc8f-459f-8138-1984e4deb244/ |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> Hamilton became Jane Addams' personal physician and volunteered her time at Hull House to teach English and art. She also directed the men's fencing and athletic clubs, operated a well-baby clinic, and visited the sick in their homes.<ref name=Weber34>Weber, p. 34.</ref><ref name=NWHM-exhibits>{{cite web| title =Alice Hamilton| publisher =National Women's History Museum| url =https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html| access-date =May 1, 2017| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20161230141742/https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html| archive-date =December 30, 2016| df =dmy-all}}</ref> 
Other inhabitants of Hull House included Alice's sister Norah, and her friends [[Rachelle Yarros|Rachelle]] and [[Victor Yarros]].<ref name="Dangerous"/>
Although Hamilton moved away from Chicago in 1919 when she accepted a position as an assistant professor at [[Harvard Medical School]], she returned to Hull House and stayed for several months each spring until Jane Addams's death in 1935.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X"/>

Through her association and work at Hull House and living side by side with the poor residents of the community, Hamilton witnessed the effects that the dangerous trades had on workers' health through exposure to carbon monoxide and [[lead poisoning]]. As a result, she became increasingly interested in the problems the workers faced, especially occupational injuries and illnesses.<ref name=Jay148/><ref name="Trades">{{cite book|first=Alice|last=Hamilton|title=Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton|year=1943|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|location=Boston|page=[https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/114 114]|isbn=0-930350-81-2|url=https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/114}}</ref> The experience also caused Hamilton to begin considering how to merge her interests in medical science and social reform to improve the health of American workers.<ref name=Jay148/>

When the Woman's Medical School closed in 1902, Hamilton took a position as bacteriologist with the Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, working with [[Ludvig Hektoen]].<ref name=Jay148/><ref name=NAW304/> During this time, she also formed a friendship with bacteriologist [[Ruth May Tunnicliff|Ruth Tunnicliffe]].<ref name="Morantz-Sanchez">{{cite book |last1=Morantz-Sanchez |first1=Ruth Markell |title=Sympathy & science : women physicians in American medicine |date=October 12, 2005 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0807848906 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sympathysciencew01mora/page/161 161] |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/sympathysciencew01mora |url-access=registration |access-date=September 25, 2018}}</ref> Hamilton investigated a typhoid epidemic in Chicago before focusing her research on the investigation of industrial diseases.<ref name=Jay148/><ref name=NAW304>Sicherman and Green, p. 304.</ref> Some of Hamilton's early research in this area included attempts to identify causes of typhoid and tuberculosis in the community surrounding Hull House.<ref name=CHFBio/> Her work on typhoid in 1902 led to the replacement of the chief sanitary inspector of the area by the [[Chicago Board of Health]].<ref name=DaleyCollection>{{cite web |title=Alice Hamilton Collection |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AHamiltonf.html |website=Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001170628/http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AHamiltonf.html |archive-date=October 1, 2015 }}</ref>

The study of industrial medicine (work-related illnesses) had become increasingly important because the [[Industrial Revolution]] of the late nineteenth century had led to new dangers in the workplace. In 1907 Hamilton began exploring existing literature from abroad and noticed that industrial medicine was not being studied as much in America. She set out to change the situation and published her first article on the topic in 1908.<ref name=MMWR1999>{{cite journal|title=Alice Hamilton, M.D.|journal=MMWR Weekly|date=June 11, 1999|volume=48|issue=22|page=462|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.HTM|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216100927/http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.htm|archive-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>