Materialities of Medical Culture In/Between Europe and East Asia

他的建议是基于德国和台湾的一群科学和医学史学家进行了两年的合作，他们的共同兴趣是物质历史、物质文化以及物质文化和认识文化的交织。未来，如果他们的研究课题与集团的研究重点相关，我们希望包括少数来自其他国家的同事。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，致力于将我们国家/大陆的历史联系起来的主题。这些讨论将为在东亚和欧洲医学文化史的交汇处更深入地反思史学方法论提供基础，并特别强调实质性。在我们迄今阐述的四个主题领域中，我们选择了两个领域作为今后三年的合作领域。我们已经确定了两个案例研究，除了在我们国家的图书馆和档案中进行必要的停留外，我们还将围绕这两个案例安排讲习班会议和学者交流。案例研究位于医药物质的历史和卫生保健政策的形成/转变的交汇点。我们建议进行两个历史案例研究：a)由德国博士后负责的《社会医学与寄生虫学之间：中国南部和台湾热带医学论述与实践中的吸虫、虫卵和螨虫(19世纪60-1910年代)》，以及b)由德国和台湾研究人员进行的欧亚典范药材旅行研究项目。这两个案例研究都将取决于现场德国和台湾同事的合作，因为台湾的一些档案来源是德语的，一些是英语、日语或中文的，东亚物质带到欧洲并返回的方式可以在档案和以德语(和其他欧洲语言)编写的出版来源中进行追踪。理解信息流(也包括非信息流)、事项和实用知识的最好方法是以混合团队的形式处理主题。因此，除了两个单独的项目外，该项目的工作将包括一系列研讨会，轮流在德国和台湾举行，以及台湾研究人员的长期访问。台湾方面将为德国研究人员提供匹配机会。

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.