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.

A collection of principles and methods for the application of disaster relief, this book explains the essential problems present in a variety of calamities, as well as the procedures determined best to deal with them effectively, based on the experience of the American Red Cross.

J. BYRON DEACON was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity and division director of Civilian Relief for Pennsylvania.

This report, published in 1947, is a guide to public relations programs around health and welfare services. It is written for professional workers, administrators, and volunteers who must answer questions, speak to audiences, or write letters and bulletins about social welfare.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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.

Published in 1937 to serve as a course plan, How to Interpret Social Work focuses on how to talk about social work in a range of public spheres, from informal and familiar approaches to more formalized and skilled techniques needed in addressing the general public.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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 Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

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.