{"product_id":"the-empathy-exams-essays","title":"The Empathy Exams: Essays","description":"From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize\n\nA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014\n\nBeginning 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\u003eASIN: 1555976719\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.1555976719.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Jamison, Leslie\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book  is in good condition and has some writing, underlining, and or highlighting inside. Cover may have some cosmetic wear.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51916513607981,"sku":"HBSV.1555976719.G","price":5.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/1555976719-0.jpg?v=1773607058","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/the-empathy-exams-essays","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}