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Anna Nikolaevna Shabanova (born 1848, Smolensk, Russia - died 1932, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a pioneering Russian woman pediatrician and women's rights activist. ==Life== Anna Shabanova was the daughter of a wealthy landowner. When still a young woman she joined a radical political group which was critical of the Czar and in 1865 was arrested and imprisoned for six months.〔Spartacus Educational〕 Shabanova wanted to become a doctor but was unable to study in Russia where there was no training available to women. She moved to Helsinki, Finland to study there but returned in 1873 when a new women's medical course started in St. Petersburg.〔 Shabanova became a doctor of medicine after earning her degree at the Higher Women's Medical Courses of Saint Petersburg in 1878. She was one of the first women in Russia to qualify as a doctor.〔 She went on to spend her entire career at the Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg, where she eventually became the senior hospital physician.〔Brooklyn Museum Dinner party database〕 Shabanova established the ''Society for the Treatment of Chronically Ill Children'' and opened children's clinics in Gatchina (1882) and Vindava (1900).〔 She also founded the ''Zhenskoe Vzaimno-Blagotvoritel'noe Obshchestvo'' (Russian Women's Mutual Philanthropic Society) in 1895. Her participation in the Russian women's movement led to her taking several positions as a leader in international women's organizations. Shabanova received many accolades for her professional work, including the Russian Hero of Labor medal in 1928 and membership of the American Academy of Social Sciences in Philadelphia in 1929.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Shabanova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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