Biography
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. Before coming to the University of South Carolina she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics (2006-7). She also held an Ethox Research Fellowship (2009-2010) at the University of Warwick Medical School, and was awarded a Marie Curie ASSISTID fellowship to address the ethical and epistemological questions regarding the evidence base for assistive technologies at the University of College Cork (2017-2019). In 2015 she was named a Distinguished Faculty Member in the College of Arts and Sciences at University of South Carolina, and in 2016 she was awarded the Provost’s Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has authored numerous articles on measurement and evidence in medical research, as well as articles in clinical and medical ethics, and is currently working on a book project, “Patient Centered Measurement.”
Research Interests
Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Feminist Philosophy.
Selected Publications
McClimans, L. (2022) “Measurement, Hermeneutics and Standardization: Why Gadamerian Hermeneutics is Necessary to Contemporary Philosophy of Science”, in Updating the Interpretive Turn New Arguments in Hermeneutics, ed. Michiel Meijer. New York: Routledge Press.
Vanier, A., Oort, F.J., McClimans, L., Ow, N., Gulek, B.G., Böhnke, J.R., Sprangers, M., Sébille, V., Mayo, N. and the Response Shift-in Synch Working Group (2021), “Response shift in patient-reported outcomes: definition, theory and a revised model”, Quality of Life Research. doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02846-w.
McClimans, L. (2021) “First-person epidemiological measures: Vehicles for patient-centered care”, Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02094-z. Online First 2019.
McClimans, L., Pressgrove, G., and Campbell, E. (2019) “Objectives and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Services: A Delphi Study”, Journal of Medical Ethics 45: 761-9.
McClimans, L, Browne, J and Stefan, C. (2017) “Clinical Outcome Measurement: Models, Theory, Psychometrics and Practice”, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 65-66: 67-73.
McClimans, L. (2017) “Place of Birth: Evidence and Ethics”, Topoi, 36: 531-8.
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