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Author:

Cohen, Susan, 1948-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Stature, Short--Hormone therapy.
Stature, Tall--Hormone therapy.
Body Height--drug effects.
Dwarfism--drug therapy.
Gigantism--drug therapy.
Human Growth Hormone--therapeutic use.

Other Authors:

Cosgrove, Christine, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-396) and index.

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?.

ISBN:

1585426830
9781585426836

OCLC:

(OCoLC)231579513

LCCN:

2008040786

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)