Ann Westmore Ann Westmore i(9613417 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Breaking New Ground : Biographies of Women Agricultural Science Students, University of Melbourne 1942-1965 Helen Billman-Jacob , Ann Westmore , Melbourne : The University of Melbourne , 2019 20253300 2019 selected work biography interview

'The book explores the lives and careers of fourteen of the first female agricultural scientists to spend a residential year at Dookie Agricultural College during the second year of their studies at the University of Melbourne.'

Source: University of Melbourne (https://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/news-formatted/gallery-builder-for-news). (Sighted: 28/9/2020)

1 1 y separately published work icon Finding Sanity : John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Greg De Moore , Ann Westmore , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2016 9613445 2016 single work biography

'In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar illness - lithium...John Cade changed the course of medicine with his discovery of lithium; yet today most doctors have never heard of his name. His discovery has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand 'help' lines, yet few counsellors know of him. And it has saved hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs - enough to rival a nation's economy - but you can bet that no politician has the slightest idea of who John Cade was...Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health; the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness; and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.' (Publication summary)

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