Understanding Human Need 2e. Dean, Hartley
Understanding
Human Need
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Understanding
Human Need
Second edition
Hartley Dean
First edition published in 2010, second edition published in Great Britain in 2020 by
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To Joe and Tom
(who might read this when they’re older – but only if they feel the need)
Contents
Detailed contents
List of figures, tables and boxes
Select glossary
Acknowledgements
Preface to the second edition
1Introduction
Part One: Understandings and concepts
2The needs of humanity
3The thin and the thick of need and needing
4Needs in theory
5Needs in practice
6Human need and social policy
Part Two: Implications and debates
7Unmet needs and social disadvantage
8Articulating needs as rights
9The politics of human need
Notes
Resources
References
Index
1Introduction