Fresh out of college in the 1960s, Mary Guinan aspired to be an astronaut--until she learned that NASA\'s astronaut program wasn\'t recruiting women.
Mather was the managing editor of the CDC newsletter, the MMWR , during the years when Smallpox was eradicated and AIDS was discovered..
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She was the first woman to serve as the chief scientific advisor to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About author(s): Mary Guinan , PhD, MD , was the founding dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is now founding dean emerita.
Occasionally heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, Guinan\'s account of her pathbreaking career will inspire public health students and future Medical detectives--and give all readers insight into that part of the government exclusively devoted to protecting their health.
In Adventures of a Female Medical Detective , Guinan weaves together twelve vivid stories of her life in medicine, describing her individual experiences in controlling outbreaks, researching new diseases, and caring for patients the world over.
Randy Shilts\'s best-selling book on the epidemic, And the Band Played On , features her AIDS work, as does the HBO movie of the same name.
And she served as an expert witness in a landmark decision that still protects HIV patients from workplace discrimination.
She was one of the first Medical detectives on the ground in San Francisco at the start of the AIDS crisis.
Guinan met arms-seeking Afghan insurgents in Pakistan and got caught in the crossfire between religious groups in Lebanon.
During her barrier-breaking career, Dr.
By May 1975, the World Health Organization declared Uttar Pradesh smallpox-free.
Selected to join India\'s Smallpox Eradication program, Guinan traveled to remote villages to isolate Smallpox cases and then vaccinate all uninfected persons within a ten-mile radius.
Instead, Guinan went to Medical school and became a disease detective with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\'s Epidemic Intelligence Service.
Fresh out of college in the 1960s, Mary Guinan aspired to be an astronaut--until she learned that NASA\'s astronaut program wasn\'t recruiting women
