Human Functioning and Social Justice

Psychosocial Functioning in Bipolar Disorder from a Social Justice Perspective

Previous research on psychosocial functioning in bipolar disorder (BD) has uncovered various factors that exacerbate disability over the course of illness, including illness severity (Burdick, Goldberg and Harrow, 2010; Haro et al., 2011; Mur, Portella, Martinez-Aran, Pifarre, & Vieta, 2009), anxiety (Boylan et al., 2004), substance use (Jaworski, Dubertret, Adès, & Gorwood, 2011), and cognitiv...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...

Creativity, Social Justice and Human Rights within Adult Education

In this paper, the author describes philosophical concepts of adult learning and their application as integrated with creative problem solving within the context of social justice and human rights. The context is framed by the work of the United Nations (1992) which emphasizes importance of women’s roles and creativity in the process of forming a global community. Foundational theories (Gardner...