Description: From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain―real and imagined, her own and others'―Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory―from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration―in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
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Book Title: Empathy Exams : Essays
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Pain Medicine, Emotions, Essays
Genre: Psychology, Literary Collections, Medical
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Author: Leslie Jamison
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
