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Chargement... Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Medicine) (édition 2017)par MK Czerwiec (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreTaking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Medicine) par MK Czerwiec
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One of the best graphic memoirs I've read this year. So poignant. ( ) I was drawn to Czerwiec's Taking Turns for personal reasons: the book provides a history of an AIDS unit in the hospital in which I work. Unit 371 was groundbreaking for healthcare's approach to caring for AIDS/HIV patients, and cemented a culture at the hospital that pervades to this day. I'd heard of it but 371 had closed well before I joined, so I was curious what I'd learn. Taking Turns provides all the stories and personalities I'd hoped, though the strengths of the graphic format aren't employed in novel ways. Events spool out more or less chronologically and predominantly in 4-panel spreads or oversized (one-page) panels. Czerwiec uses these concisely, however, to provide lists, background facts, and summary concerns which in a text narrative would come across as bland info dumps. She also conveys the impact of silence to good effect in more than one emotional situation. Czerwiec started her nursing career on 371 and the book serves as both personal memoir and cultural history of the unit and hospital. Simple, poignant and touching, Czerwiec's graphic memoir about working in a dedicated HIV/AIDS ward documents the struggles and emotions through the eyes of a young lesbian nurse during this not-often talked about era of the AIDS crisis in the mid to late 90s where everything changed with the introduction of combination therapy. At first I was put off by the simplistic nature of the art, but as I started reading I simply stopped caring what it looked like as I became riveted by Czerwiec's words. She recounts her time on an HIV/AIDS unit in a Chicago hospital during the 1990s, giving her personal testimony and including elements from the oral histories she gathered from co-workers, patients and their families. It's heavy going, obviously, making me confront thoughts about death and dying that I usually prefer to avoid. In addition to spinning some compelling tales from the unit and delivering some interesting facts about the time and place, she makes good points about art's role in dealing with death and grief. Recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. A shining example of excellence in the treatment and care of patients, Unit 371 was a community for thousands of patients and families affected by HIV and AIDS and the people who cared for them. This graphic novel combines Czerwiec ?s memories with the oral histories of patients, family members, and staff. It depicts life and death in the ward, the ways the unit affected and informed those who passed through it, and how many look back on their time there today. 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. 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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