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31Knowing with the Disability Community: Building a Disability Standpoint for Health Policy ResearchInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 14 (2): 36-60. 2021.For the last eighteen months, I have worked with a group of disability and health policy researchers. I began this interview-based project trying to learn how these researchers’ disability identities shaped their work. How did their disability standpoint contribute to the liberatory nature of their research? I found that the disability standpoint of these researchers was in fact hard-won and grew not just out of their own disability experiences but out of their connections with the larger disabi…Read more
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57Disability, Epistemic Harms, and the Quality-Adjusted Life YearInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1): 46-62. 2020.Health policymakers employ utility measures to inform resource allocation decisions. They often rely on a conceptual tool called the quality-adjusted life year that discounts the value of years lived in a state of disability relative to years lived in full health. A representative sample of the general public is asked to place values on hypothetical health states as part of a standard gamble or time trade-off task. Policymakers use the resulting values to calculate the number of QALYs gained thr…Read more
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34Measure development and the hermeneutic taskSynthese 198 (3): 2375-2390. 2019.I examine the dynamics of measure development using two case studies: temperature, and health-related quality of life. I argue, following Bas van Fraassen and Leah McClimans that in each case these dynamics have a hermeneutic structure. Measure development is plagued by epistemic circularity, as is the task of interpreting a text, and similar strategies can be used in both measure development and hermeneutics to overcome that circularity. I show that Hans Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneuti…Read more
Moreland, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social Epistemology |
Measurement in Science |
Feminist Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Medicine |