Short Children, Anxious Parents
Is Growth Hormone the Answer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | MARTIN BENJAMIN, James L Muyskens, James Muyskens, Paul Saenger |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 1984-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3561875 |
| PMID | 6724884 |
| OpenAlex | W2092509298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The impending Food and Drug Administration approval of a synthetic\ngrowth hormone (hGH) for use with children deficient in the hormone is\nexpected to present a dilemma for physicians confronted by parental demands\nfor hGH treatment of normal, but short, children. Little is known of long\nterm effects of such treatment, which is protracted, slow to yield results,\ncostly, and likely to cause psychological problems when ineffective. Public\npolicy concerns include treating normal people to attain an ideal goal, equity\nin distribution of a costly treatment, reinforcement of "heightism," and the\njustifiability of clinical research on non-hGH deficient children. (KIE\nabstract)
Dilemma · Equity (law) · Food and drug administration · Growth hormone · Hormone · Medical emergency · Political science · Birth, Development, and Health · Endocrinology · Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 1995 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |