Vroege Recensenten

Detailing the lengths modern science and everyday people have gone to in order to maintain stature norms — as well as the impact this manipulation has had on patients, pharmaceutical companies and society at large — Normal at Any Cost is a thorough investigation of a phenomenon that still affects us today: the attempts by drug-makers to define “normal” height. Going behind closed doors and into recently unsealed files, Cohen and Cosgrove reveal the harrowing extent of Big Pharma’s role in growth therapy: from the synthetic estrogen that forced thousands of young, tall girls into early puberty; to cadavers harvested for human growth hormone (hGH), leading to an outbreak of human mad cow disease. Normal at Any Cost strikes a cinematic balance between the science (detailing the “how” and “why” behind the therapies) and the personal tales of the players involved.