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Program

Fellowships and Seminars: Special Fellowships Programs

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)

A Sociological History of the Heart: The Development of Beliefs About the Heart and Its Disease in Western Culture

FAIN: FF-10222-74

Marcia Millman
Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077)

To examine the development in Western Culture of beliefs about the Heart as the center of sacred values and meaning. To examine what happens to people who hold these beliefs when they come in contact with "scientific" treatment (via open-heart surgery for example) of a part of their body which has special symbolic value for them.