Materialities of Medical Culture In/Between Europe and East Asia

他的提议是基于一群德国和台湾的科学和医学史学家之间为期两年的合作，他们的共同兴趣是物质性的历史，物质文化以及物质文化和认知文化的交织。对于未来，我们希望包括少数来自其他国家的同事，如果他们的研究课题与小组的研究重点有关。我们将通过将少量案例研究与网络中的持续讨论结合起来，研究将我们国家/大陆的历史联系起来的主题。这些讨论将为更深入地反思东亚和欧洲医学文化史交叉点的史学方法提供基础，特别强调材料。在我们迄今所阐述的四个主题领域中，我们选择了两个领域作为未来三年的合作。我们已经确定了两个案例研究，我们将围绕它们安排研讨会和学者交流，并在我们各国的图书馆和档案馆进行必要的停留。案例研究位于药用物质的历史和卫生保健政策的形成/转变的交叉点。我们建议两个历史案例研究：“在社会医学与寄生虫学之间：华南和台湾热带医学的话语和实践（1860 - 1910）中的吸虫、虫卵和螨虫”，由德国博士后承担；以及“典范药物的欧亚旅行”研究项目，由德国和台湾的研究人员承担。这两个案例研究都将取决于德国和台湾同事在现场的合作，因为台湾的一些档案资料是德语的，一些是英语、日语或中文的，东亚的物质运往欧洲和返回的方式可以在用德语（和其他欧洲语言）撰写的档案和出版资料中找到。理解信息流（也包括非信息流）、问题和实践知识的最佳方式是在混合团队中处理该主题。因此，除了两个单独的项目外，该项目的工作将包括在德国和台湾轮流举办的一系列研讨会，以及台湾研究人员的长期访问。台方将为德方科研人员提供配对机会。

Thich his proposal is based on a two years’ cooperation between a group of German and Taiwanese historians of science and medicine, whose common interest is the history of materialities, material culture and the interlacing of material and epistemic cultures. For the future, we hope to include a small number of colleagues from other countries, if their research topics are in relationship with the group’s research focus. We will work on topics that link our countries‘/continents‘ histories by combining a small number of case studies with a continuing discussion in the network. These discussions will provide the basis for a deeper reflection on historiographical methodologies at the intersection of East Asian and European history of medical culture with a special emphasis on materialities. Out of the four thematic fields which we have elaborated so far, we have chosen two for the next three years‘ collaboration. We have identified two case studies, around which we will arrange workshop meetings and scholars‘ exchange in addition to the necessary stays in libaries and archives of our countries. The case studies are located at the intersection of the history of medicinal substances and the formations/transformations of health care policies. We propose two historical cases studies: a) „Between Social Medicine and Parasitology: Flukes, Worm Eggs and Mites in Discourses and Practices of Tropical Medicine in Southern China and Taiwan (1860s – 1910s)”, to be undertaken by a German postdoc, and b) a research project on the European-Asian travels of exemplary medicinal substances, to be undertaken by German and Taiwanese researchers. Both case studies will depend on the collaboration of German and Taiwanese colleagues on site, since some of the archival sources located in Taiwan are in German, some in English, Japanese or Chinese, and the ways that substances from East Asia took to Europe and back can be traced in archival and published sources written in German (and other European languages). The best way to understand the flow of information (also of non-information), matters and practical knowledge, is to approach the topic in mixed teams. For these reasons, apart from the two single projects, the project’s work will consist of a series of workshops, to be held alternately in Germany and Taiwan, and of long-term visits of researchers from Taiwan. The Taiwanese side will provide matching opportunities for German researchers.