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Leslie Jamison : The Empathy Exams
FromBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Leslie Jamison : The Empathy Exams
FromBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Dec 18, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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, […]
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Released:
Dec 18, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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