Human health and stoic moral norms

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-238

  Becker, Lawrence C ^a,b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human health; Moral norms; Practical reasoning; Stoicism; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EUTHANASIA; HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; REVIEW; SUICIDE; THEORY;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL VALUES; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0037599226     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jmep.28.2.221.14206     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Annas, J. (1993). The morality of happiness. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Baier, K. (1958). The moral point of view. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
3. Becker, L.C. (1973). The finality of moral judgments. Philosophical Review, 83, 364-371.
4. Becker, L.C. (1973). On justifying moral judgments. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
5. Becker, L.C. (1986). Reciprocity. London and Boston: Routledge.
6. Becker, L.C. (1998). A new stoicism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
7. Becker, L.C. (1998). Stoic children. In: S.M. Turner and G.B. Matthews (Eds.), The philosopher's child: Critical essays in the western tradition. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press.
8. Becker, L.C. (2000). The good of agency, In: L, Francis and A. Silvers (Eds.), Americans with disabilities: Exploring implications of the law for individuals and institutions. New York: Routledge.
9. Brown, W.M. (1985). On defining "disease". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 10, 311-328.
10. Burns, C.R. (1976). The nonnaturals: A paradox in the western concept of health. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1, 202-211.
11. Cicero, M.T. (1951 [c. 45 B.C.]). Definibus. In: T. Page (Ed.) (H. Rackham, Trans.). The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd.
12. Foot, P. (1972). Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives. Philosophical Review, 81, 305-316.
13. Inwood, B. (1985). Ethics and human action in early stoicism. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
14. Kovacs, J. (1989). Concepts of health and disease. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 14, 261-267.
15. Long, A.A., & Sedley, D. (1987). The Hellenistic philosophers. New York: Cambridge University Press.
16. Merskey, H. (1986). Variable meanings for the definition of disease. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 11, 215-232.
17. Rawls, J. (1999). The independence of moral theory. In: S. Freeman (Ed.), Collected papers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
18. Sade, R.M. (1995). A theory of health and disease: The objectivist-subjectivist dichotomy. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 20, 513-525.
19. Striker, G. (1991). Following nature: A study in stoic ethics. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 9, 1-73.
20. Toon, P. (1981). Defining disease - Classification must be distinguished from evaluation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 7, 197-201.
21. Vacha, J. (1985). German constitutional doctrine in the 1920s and 1930s and pitfalls of the contemporary conception of normality in biology and medicine. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 10, 339-367.