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Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice
Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice
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AN EPIC ACCOUNT OF PERSONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST CORPORATE VILLAINY
Finally, 50 years on, an exposé of the global thalidomide disaster and subsequent cover-up, told through the prism of an Australian family's battle.
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 50 years the Rowe family cared for Lyn. Decades of exhausting, round-the-clock work. But then in 2011 Lyn Rowe launched a 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 50-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.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 342
- Release Date:
- 2015-05-22
- Publication Date:
- 2015-05-22
- Publisher:
- Text Publishing
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1922182095
- Weight:
- 454 g
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