The Empathy Exams

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  • The Empathy Exams Book Detail

  • Author : Leslie Jamison
  • Release Date : 2014-04-01
  • Publisher : Graywolf Press
  • Genre : Literary Collections
  • Pages : 257
  • ISBN 13 : 1555970885
  • File Size : 45,45 MB

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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