 Fraught as it is to approach health via the functioning of components in the body, it is also quite conceptually difficult to measure health in a broader sense. Biomedical science practitioners tend to get twisted into conceptual and epistemic knots when attempting to measure general/overall health or well-being in a population (Hausman 2015). One key philosophical dispute among health scientists engaged in patient health measurement activities is over what sorts/amounts of knowledge patients have about their own health states, and how this knowledge ought to be accessed (McClimans forthcoming). How much can we glean about a patient’s physical comfort by asking them to rate their level of pain on a scale of 1–10? How do we solicit such information without repeating unethical patterns of trust or mistrust, rooted in racist/sexist/etc. stereotypes about patients (Buchman, Ho, &amp; Goldberg 2017)?