Beyond therapy? Investigating biomedical enhancement in the case of human growth hormone

This project is an investigation of the issue of human biomedical enhancement, taking human growth hormone as a case study. Growth hormone is mainly used to increase the adult height of short children, and is also employed illicitly as an anti-ageing treatment. Both these applications are viewed by...

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Main Author: Morrison, Michael
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10631/