The Empathy Exams By : Leslie Jamison
Book Excerpt :
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.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
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