{"product_id":"heightened-expectations-the-rise-of-the-human-growth-hormone-industry-in-america-hardback-9780817319106","title":"Heightened Expectations; The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America (Hardback) 9780817319106","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAimee Medeiros (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817319106\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, 14 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm, 0.479 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book documents how the rise of modern capitalism and efforts to protect those most vulnerable to its harmful effects contributed to the social stigmatization of short statured children. Short boys bore the brunt of this discrimination by the mid-twentieth century, as cultural notions of masculinity deemed smallness a troubling trait in need of remedy. These boys became targets of growth hormone treatment, a trend accelerated by the development of effective HGH therapy in the late 1950s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a revisionist twist, Medeiros argues that HGH therapy was not plagued by a limited number of sources of the hormone but rather a difficult-to-access supply during the 1960s and 1970s. The advent of synthetic HGH remedied this situation. Therapy was available, however, only to those who could afford it. Very few could, which made short stature once again a mark of the underprivileged class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, small boys with dreams of being taller remain the key customer base of the legitimate arm of the HGH industry. As gender and economic class disparities in treatment continue, some medical experts have alluded to patients’ parents as culprits of this trend. This book sheds light on how medicine’s attempt to make up for perceived physical shortcomings has deep roots in American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf interest to historians and scholars of medicine, gender studies, and disability studies, \u003cem\u003eHeightened Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e also offers much to policy makers and those curious about where standards and therapies originate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570145423640,"sku":"9780817319106","price":26.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/heightened-expectations-the-rise-of-the-human-growth-hormone-industry-in-america-hardback-9780817319106","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}