Alice Stewart

Dr Alice Mary Stewart, ne Naish was a physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her study of radiationinduced illness among workers at the Hanford plutonium production plant, Washington, is frequently cited by those who seek to demonstrate that even very low doses of radiation cause substantial hazard. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986.

Stewart was born in Sheffield, England, the daughter of Albert Naish, a physician at Sheffield Royal Hospital and Sheffield Childrens Hospital, later professor of medicine at the University of Sheffield. She studied preclinical medicine at Girton College, Cambridge, and in 1932 completed her clinical studies at the Royal Free Hospital, London. She gained experienced in hospital posts in Manchester and London, before returning to the Royal Free Hospital as a registrar. In 1941 she took a teaching post at the Oxford University Medical School, and it was here she developed her interest in social medicine, advising on health problems experienced by wartime munitions workers.

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