Who gets to tell our stories.docx - In the reading “Who...

In the reading, “Who gets to tell our stories?: Health narratives and privilege” by Keisha Ray (2018)
emphasizes the importance of retelling the experiences of mistreated underprivileged patients.
However, when presenting these stories, Ray cautions the readers to be aware of their position of
privilege and power. Ray utilizes the rhetorical devices, hypophora and anecdotes to support her
perspective that additional steps must be taken to protect the patients of these stories from further
suffering to truly utilize them for educational purposes for the improvement of medicine and healthcare.
A powerful rhetorical tool used in the paper are anecdotes. In the reading, Ray positions herself as an
educator of the medicine or health care community. She states, “Recently I sat in a room of scholars who
teach health humanities in medical schools and undergraduate institutions across the United States and
Canada” and “…tools that I too have used in my own bioethics courses” (Ray, 2018). From these
examples, the readers are convinced that Ray holds the credentials to be able to teach her own bioethics
course, additionally, she further positions herself as someone who continues to educate herself on the