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100 1 $aCohen, Susan,$d1948-
245 10 $aNormal at any cost :$btall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height /$cSusan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove.
260 $aNew York :$bJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 405 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 364-396) and index.
505 0 $a"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?.
520 $aTwo science journalists examine the fascinating history of medical science's flawed attempts to manipulate height and the ethics involved. They also tell the story of the boys and girls themselves, many of them now grown, who were subjected to a wide range of non-FDA-approved medical procedures. These treatments which consisted of extreme doses of estrogen, pituitary glands taken from both animals and human cadavers, and testosterone injectionsoften had disastrous side effects.
650 22 $aHuman Growth Hormone$xtherapeutic use.
650 22 $aGigantism$xdrug therapy.
650 22 $aDwarfism$xdrug therapy.
650 12 $aBody Height$xdrug effects.
650 0 $aStature, Short$xHormone therapy.
650 0 $aStature, Tall$xHormone therapy.
700 1 $aCosgrove, Christine,$d1950-
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