The Empathy Exams
Essays
From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning 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 ot…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55597-088-8
- EAN: 9781555970888
- Produktnummer: 28287290
- Verlag: Graywolf Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'320 KB
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Leslie Jamison
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