{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47828752040162,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-22-8.10-1850","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_349_AVWjN0sqB.jpg?v=1779768279","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-empathy-exams-essays","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}