How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence

(Part of the Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Series)

by Mark O'Brien

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In September 1955 six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life.
For the first time in paperback, How I Became a Human Being is O'Brien's account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955 he contracted polio and became permanently...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:029918434X

ISBN13:9780299184346

Release Date:April 2003

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Clinical Disabled Internal Medicine Journalists Medicine Memoirs Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Professionals & Academics Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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