A Theory of Human Need

by Len Doyal and Ian Gough

Book Overview

Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction. The authors develop a system of social indicators to show what such optimization would mean in practice and assess the records of a wide range of developed and underdeveloped economies in meeting their citizens' needs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333383257
• ISBN13: 9780333383254
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"