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

by Aimee Medeiros

Heightened Expectations is 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817319107
• ISBN13: 9780817319106
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary