Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
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Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering History of Science and Technology Life Sciences |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | Philip McMaster, Michael Heidelberger |
| Description: | Tribute hosted by the National Academy of Sciences. "ON APRIL 25, 1925, the National Academy of Sciences elected to its membership, for the first time in the sixty-eight years of its existence, a woman. She was Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Professor of Histology in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, the first woman to be a full professor in that institution, and also the first woman to be President of the American Association of Anatomists. It is to the credit of Florence Sabin that, by her life, her manner of working, and her scientific integrity, she was able to convince the university administrators of this country that a woman can be quite as capable as a man in the pursuit of research in the pure sciences. By her example she did more than any other person to open the careers of scientific investigation in laboratories, medical schools, and hospitals to women. Besides this, as we will endeavor to outline, she lived several unique lives, some concomitantly, some in sequence. Hers were not the lives of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, however, since she served Medicine, Science, Public Health, and even Politics, all to their great advantage." |
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| Keywords: | Florence Rena Sabin, Florence Sabin, women in medicine, gender equity |
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| Use of Resource: | A great role model in many ways. She was an early advocate of integrating teaching and research in medical schools. " Five years later she elaborated her views upon the relationship of research and teaching in medical schools before the Committee on Research in Educational Institutions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She urged the professor-investigators, as also did many others, to perpetuate themselves by stimulating the brilliant students to become teachers and workers in research, thereby furnishing the medical schools with worthy future faculties which would carry their share of the burdens involved in the progress of medicine." |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=fsabin.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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