A Passionate Life by Helen Caldicott

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Some discolouration to front and back covers. Slight separation of laminate from underneath board. Mark on tail foredge. Previous owner has inscribed inside page. Pages are sunned.

Autobiography of this prominent Australian activist. Divided into four parts, the first covers her early years when she trained as a doctor and devoted herself to caring for children with cystic fibrosis. The latter sections detail her commitment to nuclear disarmament in Australia and overseas and her later political career as an independent standing on an anti-nuclear platform. She helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility and Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. Includes reflections on her work's impact on her family, medical career, marriage and her well-being. (Trove)