The Empathy Exams: Essays

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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.
Copyright:
2014

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Book Size:
256 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781555970888
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9781555976712
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Graywolf Press
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Copyrighted By:
Leslie Jamison
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy
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