TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Lawrence C.
TI  - Habilitation, health, and agency: a framework for basic justice 
SN  - 019991754X
AV  - JA79 .B35 2012
U1  - 320.011 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Justice
KW  - Health
KW  - Medical ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-189) and index; Habilitation and basic justice -- Health, healthy agency and the health metric -- Healthy agency and the norms of basic justice -- Relevance, influence and prejudice revisited
N2  - "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. The specific proposals drawn from the concept of habilitation are independent of any particular set of distributive principles. The result is a framework for theory that includes a metric for the pursuit of basic justice, but not a normative theory of it."--Dust jacket
ER  -