Habilitation, health, and agency : a framework for basic justice /

Lawrence C. Becker introduces an unconventional set of background ideas for future philosophical work on normative theories of basic justice. The organizing concept is habilitation - the process of equipping a person or thing with functional abilities or capacities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Lawrence C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Political science > Philosophy.
Justice.
Health.
Medical ethics.
Santé.
Éthique médicale.
health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Health
Justice
Medical ethics
Political science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Habilitation and Basic Justice
  • Preface to Part One
  • 1. Concepts and Conceptions: Basic Justice and Habilitation
  • 1. Basic Justice
  • 2. Habilitation: Concept and Conception
  • 3. Normative Theories with a Close Connection to Habilitation
  • 4. Habilitation: Conception and Framework
  • 2. The Circumstances of Habilitation for Basic Justice
  • 1. Humean Accounts
  • 2. Functional Abilities in a Given Range of Environments
  • 3. Summary of the Circumstances of Habilitation
  • 4. The Centrality of Health and Agency
  • Part 2: Health, Healthy Agency, and the Health MetricPreface to Part Two
  • 3. Eudaimonistic Health: Complete Health, Moral Development, Well-Being, and Happiness
  • 1. Health, Well-being, and Virtue
  • 2. A Unified Conception of Health, Positive and Negative
  • 3. The Science of Mental Health, Happiness, and Virtue
  • 4. Health, Happiness, and Basic Justice
  • 4. Good Health as Reliably Competent Functioning
  • 1. Basic Health: An Integrated, Limited General Concept
  • 2. Habilitation, Coping Abilities, and Agency
  • 3. Good (Basic) Health as Reliably Competent Functioning5. Robustly Healthy Agency
  • 1. The Health Metric
  • 2. Health Science: Limited and Unified
  • 3. Habilitation into Robustly Healthy Agency
  • 6. Healthy Agency as the Representative Good for Basic Justice
  • 1. Healthy Agency versus Wealth and Income
  • 2. Healthy Agency versus Pluralism
  • 3. The Representativeness of Habilitation into Healthy Agency
  • 4. Theory All the Way Down: A Public Policy Objection
  • Part 3: Healthy Agency and the Norms of Basic Justice
  • Preface to Part Three
  • 7. Healthy Agency and Its Behavioral Tendencies1. Dispositions toward Health and Habilitation
  • 2. Dispositions about the Subject Matter of Justice
  • 8. Healthy Agency and the Norms of Basic Justice
  • 1. Habilitative Necessities and Justice
  • 2. Habilitative Stability, Strength, and Efficiency
  • 3. Second-order Norms
  • 4. Moving beyond Basic Justice
  • Part 4: Relevance, Influence, and Prejudice Revisited
  • Preface to Part Four
  • 9. Relevance, Influence, and Prejudice
  • 1. Exclusionary Reminders
  • 2. Comprehensiveness and Representativeness
  • 10. Conclusion and Extrication1. Health, Individual Liberty, and Social Stability: A Fantasy
  • 2. Approximations to Health
  • 3. Pseudo-problems and Elusive Targets: Sensible Replies to the Foole
  • 4. Hope rather than Fantasy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
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