Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Medicine)
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271078189 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 patients. The ward was mo. Beautifully written and extremely moving 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 a terminal diagnosi. "Brilliant medical/nursing history - looking forward to more from this author." according to 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 documented profound
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).. MK Czerwiec is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving
MK Czerwiec’s story also issues a gracious challenge: knowing that we all live in vulnerable bodies, knowing that we will all ‘take turns’ needing others and being needed, how can we make this one life we have meaningful? This luminous graphic novel models how we can start: through creativity, community, generosity, and vulnerability.”—Ann Fox, Davidson College“The emotional honesty of the comic book is quintessential to the visceral experience of Taking Turns—funny, terrifying and heartbreaking. 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 Cze
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.. This graphic novel combines Czerwiec’s memories with the oral histories of patients, family members, and staff. It dep