Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

by M.K. Czerwiec

Book Overview

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.

In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637790074
• ISBN13: 9781637790076
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Graphic Mundi - Psu Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up