We have not a little information about the contribution of Alice Hamilton on the development of the American industrial medicine as well as her life as an eminent industrial toxicologist and a social reformer through the study of some researchers. But her internal conflict between womanhood and professionalism has not been fully studied.
The conflict was not first appeared on the Alice s mind, but it had long history since the women entered the medical field that men had monopolized in the mid-nineteenth century.
In this paper, authors traced the two strategies of the women doctors through following the lives of the two typical pioneers, Elizabeth Blackwell and Mary Putnam Jacobi, respectively, and how two trends, womanhood and professionalism, were harmonized in Alice´ s work and life through her own endeavor.
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