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Culture of Empathy
Builder:
Leslie Jamison
Pending - in development
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"Leslie Jamison is an American novelist and essayist. Her
work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008, A Public Space,
and Black Warrior Review. Originally from Los Angeles, she attended Harvard
University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently finishing a
Ph.D. in English literature at Yale. Her father is the economist and global
health researcher Dean Jamison."
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The Empathy Exams:
"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." |
Leslie Jamison "The Empathy Exams"
Leslie Jamison discusses her book with her aunt Kay Jamison at Politics
& Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
Kay Jamison give introduction.
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will talk about empathy
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has bipolar
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what makes empathy in a medial
situation and psychiatric situation
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you want competence when going to
psychiatry
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empathy can do bad things to your brain
if you get it wrong
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Though empathy?
Leslie Jamison
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Reads from chapter 1.
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Q and A
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Standard patient process, works, was good.
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Does one learn empathy, teach empathy, is it something
that's modeled?
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Empathy and violent Video games?
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How to deal with someone with
manic/depression?
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What's difference between empathy and
sympathy?
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A Doctor: Listening but wanting to be
known as well? The need to help, listening and being know yourself?
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How has the inquiry into empathy feed
your creative imagination as a writer?
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Learning about the author.
Relationship between self disclosure and empathy?
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How came to write essays?
Never Hurts to Ask The Empathy Exams,’ by Leslie Jamison
NYT
Book Review
"Jamison opens with her experience as an actor playing patients
for medical students.
“I’m called a standardized patient, which means I act toward the
norms set for my disorders.
” Sometimes, working from a script, she plays a mother whose
baby’s lips are turning blue,
and sometimes a young woman whose grief over her brother’s death
manifests as seizures."
EMPATHY: How we live with each other
The first of a series of roundtables around the topic of
Empathy.
Recorded July, 2013 at the Massachusetts Historical Society's Dowse
Library.
Hosted by a design company called
SEEK Company.
Transcripts
Featuring:
Dr. Marco Iacoboni
Leslie Jamison
Ben Doepke & the SEEK company (host)
Definitions?
Empathy and taking action
Narcissism
Emotional contagion - almost free of culture - you smile I
smile.
Perspective taking - heavy into culture
huge conflict in the world - does conflict inhibit emotional
contagion?
Neural systems
Empathy can be impeded and strengthened.
Is empathy sloppy, touchy feely stuff?
What can we do to foster empathy?
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