The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison

257 pages first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays memoir psychology challenging informative medium-paced

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor ...

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