Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice / Michael Magazanik
- Bib ID:
- 6811321
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Magazanik, Michael, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Text Publishing, [2015]
- ©2015
- 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922182098 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new 'wonder drug' for morning sickness called thalidomide. For fifty years the Rowe family cared for Lyn. Decades of exhausting, round-the-clock work. But then in 2011 Lyn Rowe launched a legal claim against the thalidomide companies. Against the odds, she won a multimillion-dollar settlement. Former journalist Michael Magazanik is one of the lawyers who ran Lyn's case. In Silent Shock he exposes a fifty-year cover up concerning history's most notorious drug, and details not only the damning case against manufacturers Grünenthal - whose ruthless promotion of their lucrative drug in the face of mounting evidence beggars belief - but also the moving story of the Rowe family. This is an epic account of corporate villainy against a backdrop of heroic personal struggle and sacrifice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 328) and index.
- Subject:
- Available From:
- 00699916
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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