Description
From private loss to phantom illnesses, The Empathy Exams is a daring and sensible assortment, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Selection of Spring 2014
Beginning together with her revel in as a scientific actor who was once paid to behave out signs for scientific scholars to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask crucial questions on our elementary working out of others: How will have to we care approximately every different? How are we able to really feel some other’s ache, particularly whilst ache will also be assumed, distorted, or carried out? Is empathy a device wherein to check and even grade every different? Through confronting ache―actual and imagined, her personal and others’―Jamison uncovers an individual and cultural urgency to really feel. She attracts from her personal studies of sickness and physically damage to have interaction in an exploration that extends some distance past her existence, spanning huge-ranging territory―from poverty tourism to phantom illnesses, side road violence to fact tv, sickness to incarceration―in its seek for one of those sight formed Through humility and beauty.
