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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, Gillian Kendall
September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day 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. How I Became a Human Being is Mark O'Brien's account of his struggles to lead an independen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780299184308
ISBN-10: 0299184307
Publication Date: 3/20/2003
Pages: 278
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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