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| Publisher: | Graywolf Press |
| Genres: | Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Psychology Books |
| Authors: | Leslie Jamison |
| Pages: | 226 pages |
| ISBN10: | 1555976719 |
| ISBN13: | 9781555976712 |
| Tags: | Nonfiction Books, Biography Books, Psychology Books, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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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 Prize
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014
Beginning 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.
