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010 _a 2008040786
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020 _a9781585426836
020 _a1585426830
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn231579513
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060 0 0 _a2009 E-095
060 1 0 _aGN 66
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082 0 0 _a618.92/4
_222
100 1 _aCohen, Susan,
_d1948-
245 1 0 _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?.
650 0 _aStature, Short
_xHormone therapy.
650 0 _aStature, Tall
_xHormone therapy.
650 1 2 _aBody Height
_xdrug effects.
650 2 2 _aDwarfism
_xdrug therapy.
650 2 2 _aGigantism
_xdrug therapy.
650 2 2 _aHuman Growth Hormone
_xtherapeutic use.
700 1 _aCosgrove, Christine,
_d1950-
856 4 1 _zTable of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy1001/2008040786.html
856 4 2 _zPublisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008040786-d.html
856 4 2 _zContributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2008040786-b.html
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