Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS

by Mary Guinan and Anne D. Mather

Book Overview

"A rip-roaring read."--Nature

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. Instead, Guinan went to medical school and became a disease detective with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Selected to join India's Smallpox Eradication program, Guinan traveled to remote villages to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419998
• ISBN13: 9781421419992
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher