A prescription for action
Subtitle: the life of Dr Janet Irwin
By: Susan Currie
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781925333831
Subjects: Social advocacy; Patient advocacy; Physicians; Biography; Women social reformers; Women physicians; Community activists; Women Physicians; Women's Rights
Description: Janet Irwin is warmly remembered as a fearless activist on issues of health & social justice. This biography tells the story of a woman doctor who more than 20 years ago proposed that aged pensioners should be able to grow marijuana, both for their own use and to sell to the government to supplement their pension..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index.