Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justic...
Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justic...
Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice / by Michael Magazanik.
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Publisher
Melbourne : Text Publishing Company ; Scoresby : Penguin Group Australia [Distributor]
Melbourne, Vic. The Text Publishing Company, 2015.
Call Numbers
H 2016/307 , G 2016/1341
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical content
342 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
March 1962 -- 1. Outstandingly safe -- 2. don't look at her -- 3. silent shock -- 4. a horrible preparation -- 5. maybe the idiots are happy -- 6. a very real fear -- 7. it could have happened to the Queen -- 8. saving America -- 9. idiots and clever poeple -- 10. it's not contagious -- 11. Grunenth...
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Publisher
Melbourne : Text Publishing Company ; Scoresby : Penguin Group Australia [Distributor]
Melbourne, Vic. The Text Publishing Company, 2015.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
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...
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Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice / by Michael Magazanik.
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Scheduled to be published May 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mitchell Library copy at H 2016/307 ; Submission for Premier's History Award 2016.
Mitchell Library copy held at H 2016/307 :Submission for National Biography Award 2016.
Mitchell Library copy held at H 2016/307 :Submission for Premier's Literary Award 2016.
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Call Numbers
H 2016/307 , G 2016/1341
Record Identifier
74VKzWrJ2NeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzWrJ2NeX
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ISBN
1922182095
9781922182098
DDC
362.43092
MMS ID
991023500389702626
