{"product_id":"the-empathy-exams-leslie-jamison-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Jamison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555976719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2014 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/2014 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2014 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2014 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/21\/2014 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2014 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/12\/2014 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2014 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2014 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2014 pg. 75","brand":"Leslie Jamison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055346282751,"sku":"9781555976712","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18fac19f-e030-4182-8309-a7eea105fad5.jpg?v=1685035230","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-empathy-exams-leslie-jamison-9781555976712","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}