Cohen, Susan,  1948- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-396) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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?. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781585426836 1585426830 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008040786 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101484285  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Stature, Short--Hormone therapy.<br/>Stature, Tall--Hormone therapy.<br/>Body Height--drug effects.<br/>Dwarfism--drug therapy.<br/>Gigantism--drug therapy.<br/>Human Growth Hormone--therapeutic use.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RJ482.G76  / C63 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>618.92/4 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2009 E-095 GN 66  / C678n 2009