Taking Turns:
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
According to the art: The book is a graphic memoir covering MK Czerwiec’s time mostly as a nurse in the HIV/AIDS unit at Illinois Masonic hospital in Chicago, Illinois from 1994 until 2000 when the unit closed. It provides personal context for one of the most serious and complex medical calamities in decades, and in a form that adds value to conventional forms of biomedical texts and teachings.