Heightened Expectations - The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America

Informationen zum Autor Aimee Medeiros is an assistant professor of the history of health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Klappentext A groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros tracks how the stigmatization of short stature in boys and growth hormone technology came together in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography! film! music! prose! and other examples from popular culture! Aimee Medeiros tracks how the stigmatization of short stature in boys and growth hormone technology came together in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Aimee Medeiros, Aimee Lynn Medeiros
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780817319106
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1910-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Nexus; New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture & Medicine; Nexus; New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture & Medicine; Nexus: New Histories of Scienc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries