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.

"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.

This book was published in 1963 as an account of the successes and difficulties encountered in the experimental introduction of a social science research service into an ongoing health and welfare agency, specifically the recounting of the development of the Social Research Service of the State Charities Aid Association, a voluntary organization with the goal of social reform.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

A report of the findings of a study into the utilization of school property after day-class hours, carried out by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1910.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

The first part of this pamphlet originally appeared in the April 1912 issue of the American School Board Journal, detailing a number of facilities to modern elementary school architecture that would also benefit the broader social community. Featured here are a number of plans that have been adopted in American cities that illustrate this.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

This report presents data related to the casework service of medical social work departments of New York City hospitals in 1945, with topics related to staff turnover, casework process, and staff size relative to hospital size.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Addresses and discussions of the Child Welfare Conference in Richmond, Virginia, May 1911.

ROY K. FLANNAGAN was president of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections of Virginia.