Leah M McClimans

Patient-Centered Measurement

Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Patients often are asked to fill out questionnaires before or after going to the doctor's office or hospital. What is the point of these questionnaires? Why do the questions often seem irrelevant? Does it matter if patients fill them out or ignore them? This book addresses these questions while also providing historical context about how these questionnaires became so popular. These questionnaires, which philosopher Leah M. McClimans calls 'Patient-Centered Measures' have a fascinating history that combines the contemporary emphasis in medical ethics on patient-centered care with the contemporary preoccupation with evidence-based medicine (the idea that medical decisions should be based on empirical evidence). Patient-centered measures sit between these two concerns and thus serve as an excellent example of a medical technology for the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780197572078
• ISBN-10: 0197572073
• Artikelnr.: 68049022

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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