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

Abstract

Introduction Part One: Habilitation and Basic Justice Preface to Part One 1. Basic Justice and Habilitation: Concept and Conception 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. Functional Abilities in a Given Range of Environments 2. Summary of the Circumstances of Habilitation 3. The Centrality of Health and Agency Part Two: Health, Healthy Agency, and the Health Metric Preface 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 Functioning 5. 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 Three: Healthy Agency and the Norms of Basic Justice Preface to Part Three 7. Healthy Agency and Its Behavioral Tendencies 1. 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 Four: Relevance, Influence, and Prejudice Revisited Preface to Part Four 9. Relevance, Influence, and Prejudice 1. Exclusionary Reminders 2. Comprehensiveness and Representativeness 10. Conclusion and Extrication 1. 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