Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1971 - 12/31/1972

Funding Totals

$28,466.00 (approved)
$28,466.00 (awarded)


Standard Work on American Folk Medicine

FAIN: RO-10947-71

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Wayland D. Hand (Project Director: January 1971 to present)

To produce a two-volume work on Amercian Folk Medicine, as a tributary study to a much larger enterprise--a multi-volume Dictionary of American Popular beliefs and superstitions. This will be the first definitive work on American folk medicine.