The Empathy Exams: Essays Jamison LesliePaperback
The Empathy Exams: Essays Jamison LesliePaperback From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA…
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The Empathy Exams: Essays Jamison LesliePaperback
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? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed?
She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her By confronting pain--real and imagined, her own and others'--Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel.