Taking turns stories from HIV/AIDS care Unit 371
"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"--
| Main Author: | Czerwiec, MK 1967- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: |
Graphic medicine.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"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"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
213 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 x 21 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780271078182 0271078189 |
| Author Notes: |
MK Czerwiec is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving. She is the artist-in-residence at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, co-curator of GraphicMedicine.org, and co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State, 2015). |