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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 Jamisonβs visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel anotherβs 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 painβreal and imagined, her own and othersββJamison 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 territoryβfrom poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarcerationβin its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - April 15, 2014
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