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How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
How I Became a Human Being A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence - Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Author: Mark O'Brien
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 le...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780299184346
ISBN-10: 029918434X
Publication Date: 10/30/2012
Pages: 280
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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