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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