{"product_id":"heightened-expectations-the-rise-of-the-human-growth-hormone-industry-in-america-new-histories-of-science-technology-the-environment-agriculture-medicine-3-9780817319106","title":"Heightened Expectations The Rise of the Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent treatment of a significant subject, the history of American ideas about height and medical approaches to issues of human growth, from the late 1800s onward. Medeiros’s treatment fits beautifully into the powerful and growing literature on the history of medicine, disability, gender, and the body.” —Amy Sue Bix, author of \u003cem\u003eGirls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eInventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America’s Debate over Technical Unemployment, 1929–1981 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e offers a lively and engaging discussion of how short stature became a ‘disease’ in need of medical treatment. It convincingly demonstrates that the pathology-making of short stature dates back to the nineteenth century and is intertwined with the rise of modern capitalism.” —Heather Munro Prescott, author of \u003cem\u003eA Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003cem\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e is a good solid piece of work on a topic of much interest. It intersects the new field of disability history and adopts the newer approach, discussing how long-standing issues have been managed rather than simply exposed, allowing fundamental cleavages in the social fabric.\"\" — Alan I Marcus, senior series editor, \u003cem\u003eneXus\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038568776023,"sku":"9780817319106","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817319106.jpg?v=1750940712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heightened-expectations-the-rise-of-the-human-growth-hormone-industry-in-america-new-histories-of-science-technology-the-environment-agriculture-medicine-3-9780817319106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}