{"product_id":"book-q3zg","title":"The Empathy Exams","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50360104714544,"sku":"BDq3zg","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/q3zg-cover.jpg?v=1765523204","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-q3zg","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}