The medical practices of British exiles and travellers in Europe, c. 1615-1700

该项目将研究1615年至1700年间在欧洲作为流亡者或旅行者的五位人物的医疗实践：肯尼姆·迪格比、罗伯特·博伊尔、约翰·伊夫林、威廉·卡文迪什和马丁·李斯特。为了超越医学史上在家庭、女性实践和男性从业者的专业活动之间的性别二分法，它将把人种学和物质文化的方法应用于广泛的来源，如信件、日记和笔记本，以重建这些杰出男性所穿越和居住的医学世界。该研究将询问这些人如何在不熟悉的领域导航医疗景观，并将分析他们与医疗从业者，产品和知识的接触动态。通过运用这些工具（通常是非专业医学的社会历史的保留）来研究那些在17世纪的科学文化中被视为创新者或重要赞助人的个人，重新审视家庭和公共实践之间的界限将成为可能。空间位移和旅行的背景将使医疗实践的独特跨国历史成为可能，允许探索个人和社会之间的产品和知识流通，以及帮助或阻碍这种流通的社会，文化和政治机制。

This project will examine the medical practices of five figures who were in Europe as exiles or travellers between 1615and 1700: Kenelm Digby, Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, William Cavendish, and Martin Lister. Seeking to move beyondgendered dichotomies in the history of medicine between domestic, feminine practice, and the professional activities ofmale practitioners, it will apply ethnographic and material culture approaches to a wide range of sources such ascorrespondence, diaries, and notebooks, in order to reconstruct the medical worlds traversed and inhabited by theseprominent men. The research will ask how these individuals navigated the medical landscape in unfamiliar territory, andwill analyse the dynamics of their encounters with medical practitioners, products, and knowledge. By deploying thesetools, usually the preserve of social histories of lay medicine, to study individuals who have been regarded as innovatorsor significant patrons in the scientific culture of the seventeenth century, a re-examination of the boundaries betweendomestic and public practice will be made possible. The context of spatial displacement and travel will enable a uniquelytransnational history of medical practice, allowing for exploration of the circulation of products and knowledge betweenindividuals and societies, and the social, cultural and political mechanisms which aided or hindered this.