
Gifted hands: The Ben Carson Story
Health and medicine, Biography, Inspirational and family life, Religious biography, Science and medicine biography, Christianity, Science and technology
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Neurosurgeon Carson discusses his rearing by his poor, uneducated mother, who convinced her sons to rise above their surroundings. Religion helped Carson overcome a violent temper as an adolescent and became a guiding force in his life. As a doctor,… Carson is best known for surgery on children, including a successful separation of Siamese twins and many hemispherectomies, in which half of the child's brain is removed