Kathryn Montgomery, PhD
Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and of Medicine
Director, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Interests

Literature and medicine & epistemology of medicine

Biography

Kathryn Montgomery is Director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Medicine. Her research interests are the use of literature in medical education and the epistemology of medicine. She is the author of Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge (Princeton) and How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine. She serves on the editorial boards of Literature and Medicine, Medical Humanities Review, and American Journal of Bioethics; she is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a fellow of the Hastings Center.

Contact Info

312/503-6729
kmontgomery@northwestern.edu
750 North Lake Shore Drive, Room 626