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.

The Delinquent Child and the Home is a study of juvenile courts in Cook County, Illinois, where the combination of a separate court and a separate place of detention for children, the abolition of fines, and a system of returning the child to his home and providing probation officers to help him there was at the time unprecedented.

SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

EDITH ABOTT was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

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.

This book, published in 1913, describes the results of the first investigation made by the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women's work in important trades in New York City that demonstrate similar conditions throughout the United States. The bookbinding trade, one of the most important trades for women in the city at the time, is examined in detail. These findings were relevant to many other industries because it presented most of the important problems which confronted women wage-earners at the time.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Based on Jacob H. Schiff's 1908 argument for the establishment of an unofficial employment bureau for the City of New York for the benefit of the unemployed, this 1909 report, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, is an examination of the need for such a bureau and an inquiry into the reasons for the discontinuance of other similar labor bureaus that attempted to deal with the same problem.

EDWARD T. DEVINE was Schiff Professor of Social Economy at Columbia University and general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

"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.

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

Published in 1920, this paper attempts to explain why school officials and voluntary organizations were not pulling together to expand the school's use as a social center—uncertainty as to the people's will. It proposes that asking the community to decide what uses a social center should have will help in the creating of such an agency.

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