Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

3/1/1979 - 2/29/1980

Funding Totals

$400,000.00 (approved)
$400,000.00 (awarded)


Tales of Medical Life

FAIN: GN-*1453-79

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Josephine Gladstone (Project Director: November 1978 to October 1990)

To Support the Production of a 60-Minute Dramatic Film on Ephraim McDowell Who Performed the First Abdominal Surgery in America: Kentucky, 1809.

To support further research and writing of a series of topical dramatised tales of medical life in America, together with production of these tales.