Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Medicine)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (964 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271078189 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Czerwiec’s restrained, inviting drawing style and carefully considered narrative examine individual, institutional, and community responses to the AIDS epidemic—as well as the role that art can play in the grieving process.Deeply personal yet made up of many voices, this history of daily life in a unique AIDS care unit is an open, honest look at suffering, grief, and hope among a community of medical professionals and patients at the heart of the epidemic.. Czerwiec joined Unit 371 at a pivotal time in the history of AIDS: deaths from the syndrome in the Midwest peaked in 1995 and then dropped drastically in the following years, with the release of antiretroviral protease inhibitors. This positive turn of events led to a decline in patient populations and, ultimately, to the closure of Unit 371. In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took he
MK Czerwiec is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving. She is the artist-in-residence at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, co-curator of GraphicMedicine, and co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State, 2015).
Excellent graphic novel Jill Meyer "Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit" is a graphic work by MK Czerwiec that describes her time working as a nurse in a dedicated AIDS unit at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago. It is as much a story about the staff members and the volunteers as much as it is about the patie. "Beautifully written and extremely moving" according to ALS. Beautifully written and extremely moving. The story centers on a nurse's experience on an AIDS ward at the height of the AIDS epidemic. But the story reaches beyond these specific circumstances and explores how caregivers, friends, family, confront the death and dying of loved ones with. Brilliant medical/nursing history - looking forward to more from this author. Anne Fawcett This is a beautiful graphic novel about a very challenging period in history. It documents the experience of patients, doctors and nurses before the advent of effective retroviral therapy, when HIV/AIDs patients were treated like lepers. The illustrations are amazing, the oral histories
“MK Czerwiec’s tales of her nursing work on an AIDS unit chart a remarkable episode in the history of medicine. Through the lives and deaths of individual patients, written and drawn in documentary detail, we see the power dynamic between doctor and patient begin to shift. MK Czerwiec, a nurse and the artist-in-residence at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, captures this tragic time with great reverence and attention to detail.”—Jessica Bylander, Health Affairs“Taking Turns chronicles Czerwiec’s experiences on the evening shift at Unit 371 with patients and other caregivers, often told through voices other than her own, some of the stories funny, some very touching, especially the stories about patients with whom she became close before they died.”—Hank Trout, AU Magazine: America's