Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height - Hardcover

Cohen, Susan; Cosgrove, Christine

 
9781585426836: Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1585426830 ISBN 13: 9781585426836
Verlag: Tarcherperigree, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

A report on the decades during which the medical community responded to parental fears about their children's heights reveals the non-FDA-approved, largely experimental treatments to which children were questionably subjected to make them taller or shorter, often with significant consequences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A recipient of the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers, SUSAN COHEN has written extensively on bioethical issues.

CHRISTINE COSGROVE is a medical journalist whose work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines around the country. A frequent contributor to WebMD, she was treated with DES (a growth-stunting drug) as a child and now stands five feet eleven inches.

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Verlag
Tarcherperigree
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1585426830
ISBN 13 
9781585426836
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
405
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