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How tall is too tall? On the ethics of oestrogen treatment for tall girls.

P Louhiala¹.
1. pekka.louhiala@helsinki.fi

Abstract

Oestrogen treatment for girls, to prevent psychosocial problems due to extreme tallness, has been available for almost 50 years but uncertainty about its position prevails. The ethical problems of this treatment are focused on in this paper. After a brief overview on historical and medical aspects, ethical issues such as the general justification of oestrogen treatment, evaluation of its success and ethical concerns related to research in this subject are dealt with in detail.

Entities: Disease Species

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Substances：
Estrogens

Year: 2007 PMID： 17209112 PMCID： PMC2598084 DOI： 10.1136/jme.2006.016253

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Ethics ISSN： 0306-6800 Impact factor: 2.903

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How tall is too tall? On the ethics of oestrogen treatment for tall girls.

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8. Treatment of girls with excessive height prediction. Follow-up of forty girls treated with intramuscular estradiol and progesterone.

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2. Medicalising short children with growth hormone? Ethical considerations of the underlying sociocultural aspects.