Apparatus XY

Works Cited

Archives

The Florence R. Sabin Collection, 79.106 AMC, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD (AMC).

_____.Streeter Correspondence, Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD (AMC).

Florence Rena Sabin Papers, B Sa12, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA (APS).

Florence Sabin Collection,the Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO.

The Florence Rena Sabin Collection, 450 SA13, Rockefeller University Archives, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY (RAC).

Florence Rena Sabin Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Northampton, MA (SSC).

 

Books and Articles:

Cole, Jonathan R. Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Corner, George W. A History of the Rockefeller Institute 1901-1953, Origins and Growth. New York: The Rockefeller Institute, 1964.

Glazer, Penina Migdal and Miriam Slater. Unequal Colleagues. The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940. New Brunswick NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowtiz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994, Illini Books edition 1999.

Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine, 2nd Ed. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2005.

McMaster, Philip D. and Michael Heidelberger. "Florence Rena Sabin." Biographical Memoirs, Vol. xxxiv. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. 271-305.

Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell. Sympathy and Science. Women Physicians in American Medicine. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

More, Ellen S.Restoring the Balance. Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 . Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Rossiter, Margaret. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

_____. "Florence Sabin: Election to the N.A.S." American Biology Teacher. 39 (1977): 484-86, 494.

Tuchman, Arleen Marcia. Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Walsh, Mary Roth. "Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply": Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession 1835-1975. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977.

Notes

• 1) This research was made possible by a Library Resident Research Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society and a Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship from the Sophia Smith Collection. I would like to thank the staff of the APS and of the Sophia Smith Collection for their help and collegiality. I would also like to thank the archivists and librarians at the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Alan Mason Chesney Archives, the Colorado Historical Society and the Denison Memorial Library of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
• 2) Tuchman, explains that turn of the century professionals focused on "autonomous individuals joining together to protect their interests."
• 3) See for instance her description of working with Edith Hooker to send letters to all members of the Maryland legislature, 28 Dec. 1919 Sabin to Mrs. Mall, Sabin Papers, Box 1, 56, Alan Mason Chesney Archives, Baltimore MD.
• 4) Among other activities, she supported Mary Beard in her endeavors to establish a World Center for Women's Archives. See World Center for Women's Archives, Box Wi-Z, APS.
• 5) Browder did eventually get money from the Kellogg Fund and an assistantship.
• 6) Sabin had landed an internship at Hopkins by being third in the class, joined by fourth-place Dorothy Reed.
• 7) This was possibly Dr. Christianna Smith of Mt. Holyoke, who, Sabin feared, had too few funds for research. See paragraph 18.
• 8) Sabin herself had been passed over for department head and then was made a full professor of histology in compensation. Hines eventually moved to Emory University.
• 9) Bensley did eventually succeed in getting a position at the University of Toronto Department of Anatomy. See 24 Jan. 1952 Bensley to Sabin, Series II, Box 9, Folder 4, SSC.
• 10) By 1947 Tompkins had made it East by accepting a position at the Yale University Lab of Applied Physiology and by 1951 she finally made it to Boston by affiliating with the Cancer Research Institute of the New England Deaconess Hospital although she had to switch her research to cancer from her preivous work on lipids. See 24 Nov. 1947 Tompkins to Sabin and 12 Jul. 1951 Tompkins to Sabin, Sabin Papers, Series II, Box 14, Folder 2, SSC.
• 11) Interestingly, the New York Herald Tribune article of March 21 1936 reporting on "An Emmy Noether Memorial" quotes Simon Flexner writing on behalf of the plan but only mentions Sabin as the person to whom checks should be sent, Series II, Box 12, Folder 7, SSC.