Empathy Exams
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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 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 painreal 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 territoryfrom poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarcerationin its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Specificaties
- Aantal pagina's
- 226
- Auteur
- Leslie Jamison
- Breedte (mm)
- 137
- Gewicht (g)
- 330
- Hoogte (mm)
- 23
- Lengte (mm)
- 208
- NUR-code
- 610
- Ondertitel
- Essays
- Taal
- en
- Uitgever
- Graywolf Pr
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Verschijningsjaar
- 2014-04-01
- ISBN
- 9781555976712
Artikelnummer: 9781555976712