Taking Turns

by MK Czerwiec

  • Penn State University Press
  • 2017
  • ISBN: 78-0271078182
  • 224 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

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.  ebook icon Audio book icon 

JAMA Best of Graphic Medicine 2017
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About the Author

MK Czerwiec is a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement (Washington, DC) and the Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL) where she teaches a course she designed called “Drawing Medicine” to first and second-year medical students. She also co-teaches a cross-curriculum course on Graphic Medicine at the University of Chicago. With a BSN from Rush University in Chicago, she began her clinical nursing experience in HIV/AIDS care and hospice care, and with a BA in English from Loyola University Chicago, she started making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse in 2000. She is a co-manager of GraphicMedicine.org and host of the Graphic Medicine podcast.

Interview

Reading icon imageBenzkofer, Stephan. Scholars study the intersection of comics and medicine in new course. UChicago News. July 5, 2019

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