A Desperate Passion by Helen Caldicott
"Dr. Helen Caldicott," the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle declares, "is back on the scene." A Desperate Passion is Caldicott's engaging, inspiring memoir, chronicling her life both on and off the scene. Raised in Australia and trained as a physician, she first found her voice protesting French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Years later she rose to international prominence, founding Physicians for Social Responsibility, "which did perhaps more than any other group to thrust the nuclear issue under the public eye" (New York Times). "Driven by intense passions, she seems to have adopted the world's population as her children. And all of us are probably better off as a result" (East Bay Express Books)—but Caldicott, wife and mother of three, found that her success did not come without cost. This is a personal story too, a candid, revealing self-portrait of a woman who has not relinquished her remarkable efforts to save the world.
"Helen Caldicott was the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980sThis story, by an extraordinary woman, is a compelling memoir of those extraordinary times." -- Edward M. Kennedy
Helen Caldicott is an internationally recognized antinuclear activist, cofounder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and founder of the Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament and the International Physicians to Save the Environment. She lives in Australia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393316803 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393316807 |
| Title | A Desperate Passion |
| Author | Helen Caldicott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1998-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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