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The Empathy Exams: Essays
Covering topics ranging from personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection of visceral and revealing essays that ask essential questions about humanity's basic understanding of others.
Articulating suffering with unprecedented clarity, The Empathy Exams is a virtuosic manifesto of human pain stitched together with the intellectual and emotional finesse of a surgeon.
“Jamison writes with sober precision and unusual vulnerability, with a tendency to circle back and reexamine, to deconstruct and anticipate the limits of her own perspective." -- The New Yorker