Taking Turns - Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process.

About the author

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University’s Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and the cocurator of the Graphic Medicine website (graphicmedicine.org). She has served as a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement and as an Applied Cartooning Fellow of the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is a coauthor of Graphic Medicine Manifesto and the editor of Menopause: A Comic Treatment, both published by Penn State University Press. MK is also the comics editor for the journal Literature & Medicine.

Product details

• Authors: MK Czerwiec, MK (Adjunct Professor Czerwiec
• Assisted by: MK Czerwiec (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2021
• EAN: 9781637790076
• ISBN: 978-1-63779-007-6
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 184 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Illustrations: Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; MEDICAL / Nursing / Nurse & Patient, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Gay & Lesbian studies, Biography: science, technology & medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Venereal Diseases, Nurse/Patient Relationship, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)