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Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height / Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2009.Description: x, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781585426836
  • 1585426830
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.92/4 22
LOC classification:
  • RJ482.G76 C63 2009
NLM classification:
  • 2009 E-095
  • GN 66
Online resources:
Contents:
"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?.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RJ482 .G76 C63 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001115293

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?.

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