In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox.
The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence
Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon
was selected to join India's Smallpox Eradication Program, which
searched out and isolated patients with the disease. By May of
1975, the World Health Organization declared Uttar Pradash
smallpox-free. During her barrier-crossing career, Dr. Guinan met
arms-seeking Afghan insurgents in Pakistan and got caught in the
cross fire between religious groups in Lebanon. She treated some of
the first AIDS patients and served as an expert witness in defense
of a pharmacist who was denied employment for having HIV-leading to
a landmark decision that still protects HIV patients from workplace
discrimination. Randy Shilts's best-selling book on the epidemic,
And the Band Played On, features her AIDS work. 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 with untreatable infections. She offers readers
a feisty, engaging, and uniquely female perspective from a time
when very few women worked in the field. 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.
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