Primary Source Databases
Scholars on the project will be working across these three genres of materials which are the anchor of the project. Many will also work beyond them to include, for example, fiction or biographies.
Project partners are currently in the process of developing databases on each of these three genres of sources.
daily-use compendia
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
hand-written documents
Institute of Chinese Life Sciences (ICL), Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Serialized Medical Periodicals
Institute of Modern History (IMH), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.