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The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.

by Jamison, Leslie, 1983-

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Graywolf Press, [2014]

Jamison, Leslie, 1983-

Empathy -- Social aspects.

Conduct of life.

Essays. Selections.

226 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222)

"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."--From publisher.

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