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Read more about the role height plays in American culture.
Learn more about different types of dwarfism.
Read more about the ethics of genetic screening.
Read more about the role height plays in American culture.
The Height Gap
Height
is seen as a kind of biological shorthand, a code for all the factors that make
up a society's well-being.
Learn more about different types of dwarfism.
Overview: What is Dwarfism?
Learn more about dwarfism, the medical conditions that cause short stature, and
how to avoid upsetting a short-startured person — don't call him a "midget".
Read more about the ethics of genetic screening.
What is Normal?
Difference or defect? Diversity or pathology? Journalist and father Dan Kennedy writes about the importance of distinguishing between difference and defect in the 21st century.
Resources: Genetic Screening & Ethics
Find out more about the history of genetic screening, eugenics and the continuing debate between those who see "difference" and those who see "defect."
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