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Graywolf Press
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 1555976719
EAN: 9781555976712
Kindle: B00FCQW7NK
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Non-Fiction
From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and
brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press
Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top
Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning 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.
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