Patient-Centered Measurement Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine

Leah 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.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1 Moving Away From Standard Assumptions: Health Science and Philosophy
Chapter 1 Coordination, Validation and the Hermeneutic Circle
Chapter 2 Vehicles for Patient-Centered Care

Part 2 An Epistemic Theory for Patient-Centered Measures
Chapter 3 Epistemic Dialogue
Chapter 4 Ongoing Coordination

Part 3 Addressing Concerns
Chapter 5 Are Patient-Centered Constructs Measurable?
Chapter 6 Industry and Patient-Focused Initiatives

Conclusion
Index