Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height /
Cohen, Susan, 1948-
Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height / Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove. - New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2009. - x, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-396) and index.
"Tallness can be a real handicap for a girl" -- Playing God with hormones -- Two girls, two continents -- "A gland lost is a gland wasted" -- "No patient seems to have caught anything" -- "Soon, very soon ..." -- "Only Genentech is not in mourning" -- Dear parent -- "Never before in the history of medicine" -- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence -- Friendly fire -- A disease is born -- Now what?.
9781585426836 1585426830
2008040786
101484285 DNLM
Stature, Short--Hormone therapy.
Stature, Tall--Hormone therapy.
Body Height--drug effects.
Dwarfism--drug therapy.
Gigantism--drug therapy.
Human Growth Hormone--therapeutic use.
RJ482.G76 / C63 2009
618.92/4
2009 E-095 GN 66 / C678n 2009
Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height / Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove. - New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2009. - x, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-396) and index.
"Tallness can be a real handicap for a girl" -- Playing God with hormones -- Two girls, two continents -- "A gland lost is a gland wasted" -- "No patient seems to have caught anything" -- "Soon, very soon ..." -- "Only Genentech is not in mourning" -- Dear parent -- "Never before in the history of medicine" -- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence -- Friendly fire -- A disease is born -- Now what?.
9781585426836 1585426830
2008040786
101484285 DNLM
Stature, Short--Hormone therapy.
Stature, Tall--Hormone therapy.
Body Height--drug effects.
Dwarfism--drug therapy.
Gigantism--drug therapy.
Human Growth Hormone--therapeutic use.
RJ482.G76 / C63 2009
618.92/4
2009 E-095 GN 66 / C678n 2009