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First published in 2015 by The Text Publishing Company
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Index by Karen Gillen
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Creator: Magazanik, Michael, author.
Title: Silent shock : the men behind the thalidomide scandal and an Australian family’s long road to justice / by Michael Magazanik.
ISBN: 9781922182098 (paperback)
9781925095098 (ebook)
Subjects: Rowe, Lyn.
Rowe, Lyn—Family.
Fetus—Effect of drugs on
Children with disabilities—Australia—Biography.
Thalidomide—Side effects—Australia.
Drugs—Law and legislation—Great Britain.
Products liability—Drugs—Great Britain.
Pharmaceutical ethics.
Dewey Number: 362.43092
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