{"product_id":"the-empathy-exams-essays-9781555976712","title":"The Empathy Exams: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom personal loss to phantom diseases, \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003ci\u003eTop Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie Jamison\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Gin Closet\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604937969938,"sku":"9781555976712","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6aec986-af3e-482e-85c5-421f9b6048ef.jpg?v=1732266920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-empathy-exams-essays-9781555976712","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}