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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Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison é uma romancista e ensaísta americana. O primeiro romance de Jamison, "The Gin Closet", foi publicada pela Free Press em 2010. Ele recebeu críticas positivas pelo San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, e Publishers Weekly. O segundo livro de Jamison, "Exames de Empatia", uma coleção de ensaio publicado por Graywolf Press, estreou em abril de 2014 como um dos livros mais vendidos e recebeu grande aclamação dos críticos.
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