Leah McClimans

Leah McClimans

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 & Society. She received her PhD at the London School of Economics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of medicine and medical ethics. 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 (2006-7). 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. She is currently working on a book length manuscript Patient-Centered Measurement for OUP.