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Author Medeiros, Aimee Lynn, 1972- author.

Title Heightened expectations : the rise of the human growth hormone industry in America / Aimee Medeiros
Published Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Nexus
Nexus
Contents Making short stature a medical matter -- The era of early growth hormone therapy in the United States -- Short stature as a psychosocial risk factor in need of an effective cure -- Living the promise human growth hormone therapy
Summary Explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sports -- United States -- Physiological aspects
Somatotropin -- Physiological effect -- United States
Dwarfism.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Endocrine glands -- Diseases.
Industries.
Genetic disorders.
Pituitary hormones.
History.
Diseases.
Bones -- Diseases.
Musculoskeletal system -- Diseases.
Humanities.
Peptide hormones.
Hormones.
Somatotropin.
Human Growth Hormone
Dwarfism
Drug Industry
History, 20th Century
Bone Diseases, Developmental
History, Modern 1601-
Endocrine System Diseases
Industry
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Pituitary Hormones, Anterior
History
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
Disease
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Humanities
Pituitary Hormones
Technology, Industry, Agriculture
Peptide Hormones
Hormones
Peptides
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
Chemicals and Drugs
Growth Hormone
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
industries (organizations)
industry (economic concept)
history (discipline)
disease.
illness.
humanities.
hormone.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Somatotropin
Pituitary hormones
Pharmaceutical industry
Peptide hormones
Musculoskeletal system -- Diseases
Industries
Humanities
Hormones
History
Genetic disorders
Endocrine glands -- Diseases
Dwarfism
Diseases
Bones -- Diseases
Somatotropin -- Physiological effect
Sports -- Physiological aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817389628
0817389628