Interview with Harriet Hardy, on being awarded the 1988 Alice Hamilton Award by the Occupational Health and Safety Section of the APHA
5 videos • 7 views • by markdcatlin These videos are from a 1988 interview with Harriet Hardy, on being awarded the 1988 Alice Hamilton Award by the Occupational Health and Safety Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The entire interview (42 minutes) and shorter clips on specific topics, taken from her longer interviews, are included in this playlist. Dr. Harriet L. Hardy (1905-1993) was a pioneer in occupational medicine, colleague and friend of Dr. Alice Hamilton and the first woman to become a full professor at Harvard Medical School. She was committed to social reform and hoped science would solve workplace hazards and improve the well-being of workers. Dr. developed an early interest in toxicology and environmentally related illness. Her autobiography, Challenging Man-Made Disease, was published in 1983. To learn more about this amazing woman, visit https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefa... . Thanks to Kathy Rest and Buck Cameron who conducted and filmed the interview. Thanks to Craig Slatin for making the posting of this interview possible.