Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height
- ISBN-10
- 1585426830
- ISBN-13
- 9781585426836
- Category
- Body image
- Pages
- 405
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove
Description
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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