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

本项目将研究1615年至1700年期间作为流亡者或旅行者在欧洲的五位人物的医疗实践：Kenelm迪格比，Robert波义耳，John Evelyn，William Cavendish和Martin Lister。寻求超越性别的二分法在医学史上的家庭，女性的做法，和男性从业者的专业活动，它将应用人种学和物质文化的方法，以广泛的来源，如信件，日记和笔记本，以重建医疗世界穿越和居住的这些杰出的男人。该研究将询问这些人如何在不熟悉的领域中导航医疗景观，并将分析他们与医疗从业者，产品和知识相遇的动态。通过使用这些工具，通常是非专业医学的社会历史保护区，来研究被认为是十七世纪科学文化中的创新者或重要赞助人的个人，将有可能重新审视国内和公共实践之间的界限。空间位移和旅行的背景下，将使医疗实践的一个巨大的跨国历史，允许探索的产品和知识流通之间的个人和社会，社会，文化和政治机制，帮助或阻碍这一点。

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.