The Empathy Exams
by Leslie Jamison

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• Release date: April 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781555976712 (1555976719)
• Awards: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Shortlist (2015), Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize (2011), NAIBA Book of the Year for Trade Paperback Original (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
• Author: Leslie Jamison
• Genres: essays, memoir, psychology, feminism, unfinished, medicine, biography, philosophy
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Format: paperback, 230 pages
• Language: english

About The Book

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 grace.

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