The Empathy Exams: Essays

by Leslie Jamison

Book Overview

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555976719
• ISBN13: 9781555976712
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"