# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisabeth-targ
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:31:50.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisabeth-targ"
name: "Elisabeth Targ"
slug: "elisabeth-targ"
description: "Elisabeth Fischer Targ was an American psychiatrist, who specialized 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."
tagline: "American psychiatrist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1961-08-04"
deathDate: "2002-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             0.07451564828614009
  historical:           1.557669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Targ"
    title: "Elisabeth Targ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5361557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations