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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morrison, Michael
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2008
Subjects:	Science and technology studies human Growth Hormone bioethics biomedical enhancement sociology of health and illness social construction
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10631/

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