Experiencing the History of HIV/AIDS: A Review of Taking Turns

Abstract

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, by MK Czerwiec. Paperback; 50 pgs; full colour. March 15 2017. Penn State University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0271078182 This review argues that Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Czerwiec 2017) provides an accurate and factual account of the history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in America in the 1990s. Through the use of illustrations and text, the book presents the reader with an immersive account of what it was like to provide care to HIV/AIDS patients during that time.

Keywords

• care
• comics
• graphic medicine
• history
• medicine