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Title: Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
Author: MK Czerwiec
Illustrator: MK Czerwiec
Primary Health Topic: HIV/AIDS
Secondary Health Topic(s): Nursing; History of Medicine
Special Considerations: Death
Publication Date: 2017
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271078182
GM Review: Guest Review by Dr. Devlyn McCreight
Annotation: Taking Turns explores the world of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, part of the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Recalled from archival records, oral histories, and MK Czerwiec’s experiences as a nurse on the ward, readers are given an honest look at the grief, suffering, and hope that defined this period in time and that resonates throughout the medical world to this day. Illustrated simply, in primarily four panel pages, and with a healthy dose of color, Taking Turns offers readers an opportunity to not only absorb the history easily, but prompts empathetic reflection for each member of the community – patients and families, yes, but the medical staff as well.
Annotated By: Matthew Noe