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4 Critical Soc. Pol'y 4 (1984)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy4 and id is 1 raw text is: Notes on this issue Issue 10 marks the beginning of the fourth year of publication of CSP. In the past three years we have published a range of material both by academics and practitioners, concerning questions of theory and practice. In this issue we again span a range of approaches and topics. The first article, by Len Doyal and Ian Gough, A Theory ofHuman Needs, intervenes in welfare debates at two levels. It makes a significant contribution to debates about human need, offering an anti-relativist interpretation of the basic individual and social pre-requisites for human action, and also, points the direction in which such a theory can be applied to the study of welfare provision. This article may provoke a new discussion of the concept of human need, its theorisation and its application. Some similar questions are addressed in the third article in this issue, Mobilisation without Emancipation, by Maxine Molyneux. A very specific context, the Nicaraguan Revolution and its relation to women is examined by developing a conceptual distinction between women's interests and gender interests. The difficulties encountered in a definition of 'interests' are similar to those in a definition of need, and, in this respect, both articles can usefully be read together. The issues raised by the article are those of assessing par- ticular social developments in their relation to women's emancipation, and the general relationship between socialism and feminism. Standing between these two articles is, Community Policing: towards the local police state, by Paul Gordon. The author provides a useful resume of developments in community policing from the 1950s to the present day, with its recent emphasis on multi-agency policing. The author argues that we have witnessed the increasing disciplining of society by the state and that commun- ity policing represents not a soft alternative to 'hard', 'fire-brigade' policing, but a complement to it. Struggles in the welfare state, starts with a theme on health in Nicaragua. The situation described in the introduction makes useful background reading to Maxine Molyneux's article mentioned earlier. The appalling health condi- tions inherited by the Sandinistas from the Samoza regime is documented and a brief outline of the National Strategy for Health, subsequently implemented by the Sandinistas, is given. The major part of the theme is an interview by Margaret Hooks, initially published in MIND, with two doctors from the mental health team made up of Argentinians, Mexicans, and a Chilean now working in Nicaragua. Until recently, little or no attention has been paid to mental health, but this team of unpaid workers has started to develop and guide primary prevention, initially with an investigation into the physical and mental health of 20,000 schoolchildreri. The second article in the struggles section deals with the experiences of Medway Health Authority in contracting out its ancillary services. It docu- ments the reduction in services, the insecurity of employment for workers and the disastrous long-term effects upon the health of the community. In the Commentary on social policy section commentary one is an assess- ment of the Government proposals to scrap the GLC and the Metropolitan County Councils, along with the effects of the proposed legislation on rate- 4

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