This report explores the complex ethical, political, psychological, and economic questions that arise from developments in medical genetics. It reviews research in applied genetics at the interface of the social and bio-medical fields, including the counseling and study of birth control, as well as the active treatment and selection of individual genetic attributes.

James R. Sorenson was chair of the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Human Behavior at the University of North Carolina.

Complementing the focus on the structural and social-psychological aspects of measuring social change, this report establishes a research approach relating social measurement to antecedent and consequent political considerations: political values, policy impact, power consequences, administrative influences, institutionalization, and so forth. This study is directed to any social scientist interested in political phenomena and in the issue of the relationship between social science and public policy.

Peter J. Henriot, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C.

This book, encouraging more effective collaboration between professional architects and social scientists, outlines how social science research can aid the design process, detailing how physical environment relates to behavior. With a foreword by Hugh F. Cline.

John Zeisel, Harvard University, Department of Architecture

This history covers the first forty years of Russell Sage Foundation's efforts toward "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America." It records the things that were done, both as direct work and through grants, with considerable attention to the social situation which made them seen necessary or desirable. It is of value not only to those interested in the operation of the Russell Sage Foundation or other foundatons, but for the light it throws upon the origins and development of a wide variety of movements in the borad field of social science.

A paper on practices to improve hygiene in children's environments, particularly the school playground.

George E. Johnson was superintendent of the Playground Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

A paper on the social benefits of playgrounds, from the Playground Extention Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Harriet Hickox Heller, Playground Association of America

A 1911 address dedicated to the prevention of infant mortality focusing on children born outside of wedlock. 

Hastings H. Hart was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A paper aimed at how to best help children born out of wedlock, part of the report from the Virginia State Board of Charities and Corrections presented at teh Virginia Child Welfare Conference.

Hastings H. Hart was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A condensed list of early research on recreation, published by the foundation in 1915.

Lee F. Hanmer, associate director,  Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation. Howard R. Knight, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation.