Patient-Centered Measurement

The book is an excellent example of philosophy of medicine done well. It engages in detail with debates in philosophy and science, drawing on philosophical resources to illuminate them theoretically and provide guidance on connected practical and ethical issues. The approach challenges some assumptions about wellbeing and measurement that have rarely been articulated. McClimans’ analyses of a range of measurement-related concepts are important advances in philosophical engagement with patient-centred medicine and measurement science and the epistemological and ethical issues they generate. * Mary Jean Walker, American Journal of Bioethics *

Leah M. McClimans is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina and co-Director of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology, and Society. She received her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2007. She has authored numerous articles on measurement in quality of life research, clinical ethics, and the entanglement of ethics and evidence. Before coming to the University of South Carolina she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics (2006-2007). She also held an Ethox Research Fellowship (2009-2010) at the University of Warwick Medical School and a Marie Curie ASSISTID Fellowship (2016-2018) at the University College Cork School of Nursing.