{"product_id":"the-empathy-exams-essays-paperback","title":"The Empathy Exams: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie Jamison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (2014)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Indies Choice Book Awards (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771618165024,"sku":"9781555976712","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ed7f4c0a0cc50f687b82fcb2687aa128.webp?v=1780389697","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-empathy-exams-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}