Word: heightism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have already been treated with HGH by physicians, despite lack of information about its long-term safety or efficacy. While the panel concedes that being short is not a medical disorder, it can make some things harder to do, like driving a car, and cause psychological problems. "There is heightism in our society," says panel member Dr. Melvin Grumbach of the University of California at San Francisco. NIH estimates that 100,000 U.S. children could receive HGH if it proves effective...
Straining even more to avoid giving offense, except to good usage, the < dictionary offers comfort to very short people (though not very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
...success in a business career than any paper qualifications you have." Gertner refused to put the author's son on HGH therapy, but some physicians may be more receptive to parental demands. Says Dr. Douglas Frasier, president of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society: "There's a lot of heightism in our society. And there's a sense that if you're not tall enough, somebody ought to be helping you get taller...
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