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Elisabeth Targ | |
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| Born | August 4, 1961 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 13, 2002 (aged 40) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Research into medicine |
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| Relatives | Bobby Fischer (uncle) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine, psychiatry |
Elisabeth Fischer Targ (August 4, 1961 – July 13, 2002) was an American psychiatrist, specializing in psychic phenomena and the role of spirituality in health and healing. Targ produced a series of papers investigating the effects of prayer on AIDS patients, attempting to test the theory with a high degree of experimental rigor, with questionable results that eventually were not confirmed by a study published after her death. She died of glioblastoma, the same cancer she was studying, on July 13, 2002.