This is an open international reading group, hosted by the Centre but open to all, for bringing together people with interests in philosophy of medicine construed broadly to include epidemiology, public health, biomedical science, and so on. If you would like to join, please request membership of the google group and you’ll be able to access the meeting link there: https://groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

Each week there will be two online meetings of the group to discuss the same text, one on Wednesday night at 5pm UK time (BST), one on Thursday morning at 9 am UK time (BST), in hopes of accommodating group members in a variety of time zones. There is no need to attend all meetings – please come when you can.

This term we will be tackling an exciting new text: Leah M. McClimans’ “Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine” published by OUP last year: https://academic.oup.com/book/56467

Weds 5 Feb and Thurs 6 Feb: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Introduction and Chapter 1 (48 pages)

Weds 12 Feb and Thurs 13 Feb: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Chapter 2 (26 pages)

Weds 19 Feb and Thurs 20 Feb: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Chapter 3 (34 pages)

Weds 26 Feb and Thurs 27 Feb: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Chapter 4 (36 pages)

Weds 5 March and Thurs 6 March: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Chapter 5 (33 pages)

Weds 12 March  and Thurs 13 March: McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2024. Chapter 6 and Conclusion (37 pages)

Weds 19 March and Thurs 20 March: TBD

If you have any difficulty accessing the text, please email cpemph@durham.ac.uk for assistance.

Any enquiries, please get in touch. And to join, it’s https://groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/