The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison.
The Empathy Exams: Essays - Kindle edition by Leslie Jamison. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Empathy Exams: Essays. The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison “The Empathy Exams is a work of tremendous pleasure and tremendous pain.
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Each of the 11 essays in aLeslie Jamison’s brilliant collection, “The Empathy Exams,’’ touches, in one way or another, on ideas of empathy (which implies pain, victimization, senstivity.
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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014. 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.
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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection,. and other diverse sources, uniting the essays with a single invitation: to let pain and experiences of others touch us, no matter how we have been taught to dismiss them. Jamison's analysis and intuition for human experience is rich, at times almost too thick too take in even over multiple.
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The essays in The Empathy Exams are beautifully arranged and organically connected through the tight weave of Jamison’s sensibility and observational choices. By the time we near the end of the collection we have been taught to weigh human suffering with Jamison’s scale, so we’re ready when she ventures out into a different kind of essay. “Lost Boys” explores the nonfiction films.
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The Empathy Exams: Essays. The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing. Beginning with her experience as.
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