| Main Title: |
Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice / by Michael Magazanik. |
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| Author: |
Magazanik, Michael
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| Imprint: |
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2015 |
| Collation: |
342 pages : colour illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, pbk ; 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
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. Grunenthal's accfidental pregnancy test -- 12. like lollipops -- 13. the humane and proper thing -- 14. greedy hearts -- 15. a little bit more luxury -- 16. not ready to retire.
'The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head.'
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 Gruenenthal - 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. |
| Subject: |
Rowe, Lyn, 1962-
Rowe family (Melbourne)
Fraud in science
Pharmaceutical ethics.
Drugs
Thalidomide.
Health
People with disabilities
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| ISBN: |
9781922182098 1922182095 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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