This 1909 paper from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation outlines the reasons for recreation: that it encourages mental control over motor skills, physical development and conditioning, and even the growth moral and social qualities like respect and sympathy in children.
GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.
Detailing the organized work in New York, Maryland, Ohio, and Massachusetts that were presented at a conference by the Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation on Prevention of Blindness in 1910, as well as national research for blindness prevention by the American Medical Association and the Russell Sage Foundation.
A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report studies the labor conditions of the industrial trades found in Topeka, particularly the automotive industry. Published with A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schneider, Jr., Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter, and Municipal Administration in Topeka by D. O. Decker.
ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
Social Science in Nursing was the product of a three year project examining the application of the social sciences to nursing, conducted at the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing.
FRANCES COOK MACGREGOR was visiting associate professor of social science at Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing.
Published in 1937 as part of a series of studies dealing with the status of emerging and established professions in the United States.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Nursing as a Profession was published in 1936 as part of a series of studies dealing with the present status of certain established and emerging professions in the United States.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
In 1949, the Russell Sage Foundation instituted a counseling service for colleges and universities that wished to improve their existing schools of nursing or introduce new nursing curricula, headed by Dr. Margaret Bridgman. After visits to more than eighty colleges around the country, the National League of Nursing Education invited her to continue the work under the new National League for Nursing in 1952. This report presents her findings.
MARGARET BRIDGMAN was academic dean of Skidmore College.
In Drugs and Society, Bernard Barber organizes and criticizes what has been learned about drug behavior by biologists, medical researchers, pharmacologists, sociologists, practicing physicians, economists, and government officials, The author brings out the implications of what is now known, the perils of continued ignorance in many areas, and the need for a great deal of specific new research.
Barber examines the ethical considerations relating to experimentation with drugs on human subjects. He indicates that our social policy for the treatment of drug addicts is based on prejudice and ignorance and that it probably aggravates the troubles it seeks to eliminate.
BERNARD BARBER was professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University
A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Science Frontiers, occasional publications reviewing new fields for social science development. This paper explores the links between the social and biomedical sciences concerning the prolongation and termination of life, with the aim to stimulate scholars, foundations, and government agencies to further study death and dying in American society.
DIANA CRANE is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Published in 1914, Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States served as a handbook for social workers interested in the care of disabled children. It provides information regarding hospitals, institutions, and asylums dedicated to crippled youth, particularly the state institutions in Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Topics include education and vocational training, as well as detailed descriptions of the construction of physical spaces for disabled children.
EDITH REEVES was special agent at the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.
