She worked only part time at Harvard, but she was so active on so many fronts that one writer labeled her "the Tinker Bell of
industrial medicine.
We offer a full range of rehabilitative services including: physical therapy,
industrial medicine, sports training and rehabilitation and occupational therapy.
2006), The BeLPT: Algorithms and interpretations, American journal of
Industrial Medicine, 49,36-44.
Kales of Harvard University, Boston, who is also medical director of employee health and
industrial medicine for the Cambridge (Mass.
Stewart, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (the youngest woman ever elected) and cofounder of the British Journal of
Industrial Medicine, authored more than 400 scientific papers during her prolific career.
Thiis-Evensen, "Shift Work and Health,"
Industrial Medicine and Surgery XXVII (1958): 493-497; quoted in J.
A study conducted last year and published in the American Journal of
Industrial Medicine examined cutting injuries among adolescents in supermarket operations.
It was sponsored by the Californian and the San Joaquin
Industrial Medicine Associates.
Experiments in his laboratory, to be reported soon in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, indicate that two organic solvents, xylene and toluene, should be added to the list of known chemical carcinogens.
Alice Hamilton, who died in 1970 at the age of 101, was a doctor and a pioneer in the field of
industrial medicine, the first woman appointed to teach at Harvard, a longtime resident and participant in the reform activities of Hull House and a committed political activist.
With 172 licensed hospital beds, MHG offers a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services designed to meet the needs of its patients including services such as: Nursing Care, Sub-Acute Care, Pediatrics,
Industrial Medicine, and 24-hour Emergency Services.
A study in the March 2000 issue of the American Journal of
Industrial Medicine finds that commercialization and consolidation of tobacco farms may be causing a rise in green tobacco sickness, a form of acute nicotine poisoning that occurs after brushing against wet tobacco leaves.
