The Empathy Exams: Essays Contributor(s): Jamison, Leslie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555976719 ISBN-13: 9781555976712 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Medical | Essays |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2013946927 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |