Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height (Hardcover) by Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove

from sashzj

A fascinating history of the medical community's manipulation of height and its effects, Normal at Any Cost asks its readers to consider the line where the extremes on the spectrum of what is normal cross over to pathology. As interesting as the individual case studies were, the overall theme of ...

from neilandlisa

A fascinating and somewhat frightening look into society's definition of "normalcy" and appearance. Without being dry or too scientific, the authors present a compelling case against medication or treatment for height, appearance, etc. Reading this reminded me of a boy from elementary school who ...

from redwoodhs

This book is a comprehensive review of the history of the various ways the medical industry has intervened to manipulate the stature of growing children in the U.S. Moving through the past fifty years, the authors review the methods, both physical and pharmaceutical, which have been used to make ...

from Librtea

Normal at any Cost is a cautionary tale of doctors' attempts to control children's height through medical intervention. For more than half a century, in order to curtail growth in tall girls and to enhance growth in short boys, doctors have resorted to unorthodox, unproven, poorly understood horm...

from jnavia

When I was fifteen, I was 5'10" and miserable. This was back in the mid-1970s, and at that time, being a tall woman was not something that was considered a good thing. I desperately wanted to be "normal," but I wasn't. My tallness was due to Marfan syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. I heard ...