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Title: Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal & an Australian Family’s Long Road to Justice
Author: MAGAZANIK MICHAEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/05/2015
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781922182098
Pages: 400