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.

Two Worlds of Childhood is a cross-cultural study of child rearing and education in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, published in 1970. Bronfenbrenner conducted research in the Soviet Union to study child rearing in the family and collective settings.

URIE BRONFENBRENNER was professor of Psychology and of Child Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, and one of the founders of the Head Start Program.

In 1962 the Russell Sage Foundation initiated a series of studies on the social consequences of standardized intelligence, aptitude, and achievement testing. This book presents the initial results from the series, focusing on the social impact of tests of intellectual abilities, based on questionnaire responses from adults across the United States.

ORVILLE G. BRIM was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.

JOHN NEULINGER was assistant professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York.

DAVID C. GLASS was professor of psychology at New York University.

Based on data from new clients who came to a large social agency over a four-month period, Social Workers’ Perceptions of Clients examines the characteristics of clients as they are perceived by caseworkers. It aims to discover and expose underlying dimensions along which the characteristics of female clients, unmarried mothers, and male clients are perceived.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

DAVID FANSHEL was professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

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 report of the agencies and institutions in California devoted to the care of dependent, delinquent, children. One of a series prepared to present and illustrate the types of institutions and services provided to children across the United States."

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of hte Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.