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

by Mark O'Brien

Book Overview

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 independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299184307
• ISBN13: 9780299184308
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"