“I had bought into the American idea that things should be equitable.”
Haseltine was the Director of the Center for Population Research for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. She led the way for advances in contraception research and other health areas, founding the Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and the Journal of Women’s Health. A true pioneer, she holds numerous patents in health technology.
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Molecular Biologist Obstetrics and Gynecology
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The University of California at Berkeley BS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD | 1970
Albert Einstein College of Medicine MD | 1972
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
Boston Hospital for Women Obstetrics and Gynecology
Assistant and Associate Professor 1976-1985
Director of the Center for Population Research 1985-2012
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Nursing Current
Founder; Executive Director 1990
Founding Editor-In-Chief 1992
Founder 1995
Florence Haseltine — nd
Florence P. Haseltine. Interviewer: Florence Minnis — 2008
Florence P. Haseltine. Interviewer: Joyce Antler — 1977
Chodos, Alan, Dr., Haseltine, Florence P., Dr. — 1968-1969
Florence P. Haseltine. Interviewer: Jeffrey K. Stine — 2020
Florence P. Haseltine. Interviewer: Chet Cooper — n.d.
National Library of Medicine — 2003
Oral histories enable women to share their stories in their own words and better shape the legacy they leave behind.
The Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman in Medicine Oral History Project highlights the recipients of the Foundation’s Alma Dea Morani, MD Renaissance Woman Award. It’s a unique collection of medical pioneers housed in the collections of the Harvard Countway Library of Medicine and highlighted in a Countway online exhibit.
Florence P. Haseltine is one of these pioneers.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Women's Leadership and Authority in the Health Professions by Florence Haseltine — 1977
In Science by Florence Haseltine — 1999
In American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology by M.L. Stone et al — 1999
In Journal of Women's Health by Florence Haseltine — 1997
In Journal of Women's Health by Florence Haseltine — 1994
In Sloan Management Review by Eileen Shapiro, Florence Haseltine, and Mary P. Rowe — 1978
In Journal of Women's Health by Florence Hasetline — 1994
In Fertility and Sterility by Florence Haseltine and Anne Colston Wentz — 1984
In Journal of Women's Health by Florence Haseltine — 1992
In Journal of Women’s Health by Florence P. Haseltine — 1994
In Women's Health Research: A Medical and Policy Primer by Florence Haseltine — 1997
In A Hand Up: Women Mentoring Women by Florence P. Haseltine — 1995
In A Hand Up: Women Mentoring Women by Florence P. Haseltine — 1995
In Technology & Innovation by Florence Haseltine — 2018
In Technology & Innovation by Florence P. Haseltine and Mark Chodos — 2017
Society for Women's Health Research — 2020
Society for Women’s Health Research — 2020
Organization for the Study of Sex Differences — n.d.
So many women remain disconnected from their history as women in medicine because the collections aren't digitized or were never created in the first place.
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