Normal at Any Cost - Nisha interviews Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove
Normal at Any Cost - Tall Girls, Short Boys, Designer Children

Normal at Any Cost

Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height

Authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove take a look at the experimentation on Children that has been conducted by doctors, and encouraged by pharmaceutical companies and also allowed by regulatory agencies.  

Christine herself as a teenager was treated with DES in attempt to stunt her growth due to her extraordinary height, which in the 1950’s was thought to be a hindrance to a young lady in finding a proper husband.  

Going behind closed doors, and looking in files, the authors were able to reveal the extent of both the government and the Pharmaceutical Company’s roles in the development and marketing and prescribing fo growth therapies.  Synthetic estrogen that caused many young, tall girls, to go into early puberty, cadavers harvested for HGH.  

This book has personal tales from those involved, including doctors who took incentives from pharmaceutical representatives to push HGH and other growth drugs onto children for cosmetic reasons.

Parents, who terrified of not doing what was “right” for their child, agreed to experimental and expensive trial drugs.

Children, who detested the treatments, and now as adults are suffering the side affects.

Normal at any Cost is available at most bookstores.