The empathy exams
Subtitle: essays
By: Leslie Jamison
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847088420
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Empathy; Pain
Description: A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
Notes: Originally published: 2014.
Table of contents: title: Empathy exams --; title: Devil's bait --; title: La frontera --; title: Morphology of the hit --; title: Pain tours (I):; title: La plata perdida ;; title: Sublime, revised ;; title: Indigenous to the hood --; title: The immortal horizon --; title: In defense of saccharin(e) --; title: Fog count --; title: Pain tours (II):; title: Ex-votos ;; title: Servicio supercompleto ;; title: Broken heart of James Agee --; title: Lost boys --; title: Grand unified theory of female pain.