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

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ISBN-10: 1585426830

ISBN-13: 9781585426836

Edition: 2009

Authors: Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove

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A fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within the norm. Most people rarely think about their height beyond a little wishing and hoping. But for the parents of children who are ridiculed by their peers for being extraordinarily tall or extraordinarily short, height can cause great anguish. For decades, the medical establishment has responded to these worries by prescribing controversial treatments and therapies for children who fall outside of the normal height range. While some have benefited, many have suffered from devastating side effects. In this riveting book, Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove provide a voice…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/19/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Susan Cohen is a social historian with a special interest in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She was awarded a PhD for her work on the campaigner for women's rights, Eleanor Rathbone, and she is an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute at Southampton University. Her book on Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees will be published in 2009.

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

Introduction
drug turns young amazons into beauties
"Tallness Can Be a Real Handicap for a Girl"
Playing God with Hormones
Two Girls, Two Continents
helping the dwarfed children
"A Gland Lost Is a Gland Wasted"
"No Patient Seems to Have Caught Anything"
"Soon. Very Soon..."
to market, to market...
"Only Genentech Is Not in Mourning"
Dear Parent...
"Never Before in the History of Medicine"
reckonings
Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence
Friendly Fire
$35,000 an inch-and growing
A Disease Is Born
Now What?
Conclusion: A New Normal?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index