Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The Empathy Exams
- Essays
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
The Empathy Exams
Buy Now for £14.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
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 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.
Listeners also enjoyed...
What listeners say about The Empathy Exams
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- marnie
- 27-08-24
Something weird about the reading
Great essays but jarringly read. Leslie Jamison is a sublime writer so this is feels disrespectful to her work to be mainly focussing on the delivery. But….There was something a bit robotic so I even looked up the VO woman to check that she’s a real person. She is… but I can’t help wondering if she’s lent her voice to an AI and just tweaked a bit at the end. There’s a lack of humanity in the voice and I feel that it doesn’t do the work justice. Wondering if anyone else has noticed or whether I’m just a mad person, distracted from the vulnerability of the words by the nagging sensation that the next word might sound like AI?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!