Bibliograph

Silent shock, the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice, by Michael Magazanik

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Silent shock, the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice, by Michael Magazanik

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Silent shock

Responsibility statement

by Michael Magazanik

Sub title

the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family's long road to justice

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 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 Grunenthal - 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

Target audience

adult

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