The Empathy Exams: Essays [Paperback] Jamison, Leslie

The Empathy Exams: Essays [Paperback] Jamison, Leslie

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The Empathy Exams is an exceptional collection that explores profound themes such as personal loss and phantom diseases. Notably, it has been honored with the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and recognized as a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014. Leslie Jamison's essays delve into her firsthand experience as a medical actor, wherein she emulated symptoms for medical students to diagnose. By doing so, she compels readers to ponder fundamental questions about how we understand and care for others. Specifically, she examines the intricate dynamics of empathy, including its potential distortion or performance in relation to pain. Can empathy be used as a metric to evaluate or compare individuals? Through an honest and introspective exploration of both real and imagined pain, Jamison uncovers an urgent societal and personal need to feel and connect with others. Drawing from her own encounters with illness and bodily harm, her investigation extends well beyond her own life, encompassing diverse subjects such as poverty tourism, phantom diseases, street violence, reality television, illness, and incarceration. Ultimately, she seeks to cultivate a kind of vision that is shaped by humility and grace.

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