{"product_id":"9781555976712","title":"The Empathy Exams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom personal loss to phantom diseases, \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003ci\u003eTop Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055163719920,"sku":"9781555976712","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555976712_p0.jpg?v=1763754814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555976712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}