Humanitas Response:
Narrative, Literature, and the Clinical Exercise of Practical Reason
I liked Kathryn Montgomery Hunter’s essay and the direction she took to explain such urgent issues in medicine was fascinating. It was interesting to learn that “Narrative is essential to practical reason. It is the source and agent of both the knowledge of others and a sense of a moral or professional community, a community of practice.” (Montgomery Hunter, 191) Montgomery goes on to state another point that is often overlooked and that is “Human life is pervaded by narrative: we read and tell and listen to stories, we watch them unfold in art, ritual, and social life; we perform them ourselves; they give form and meaning to our daily existence.” (Montgomery
