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Elena Lisitsyna, M.A.

M.A. Elena Lisitsyna

Research Fellow (DFG-Project)

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Postal Address:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München

Visitors' Address:
Edmund-Rumpler-Str. 9
80939 München

Room: A 026
Phone: (Secretariat) +49 (0) 89 / 2180-1318

Office hours:
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Research interests

  • Imperial History
  • History of science
  • History of naval medicine

Dissertation project


The role of medicine in the Russian naval expeditions between 1764 and 1829

In the period under consideration, fourteen Russian naval expeditions to the Arctic Ocean, around the continents and even to the Antarctica were conducted with the help of international crews. This part of the project focuses on the medical planning and organisation of these expeditions, the training of maritime doctors and their duties on board. How were concepts of medical geography applied in regimes of hygiene at sea or in harbours? What was the impact of Austrian studies on cholera or the British and French colonial experience? And how did Russian naval physicians contribute to the international endeavour of medical geography and cartography? The project will examine the writings of German, French and British doctors, but will be also based on archival material from the Russian State Maritime Archive in St Petersburg where reports by physicians about diverse maritime expeditions are kept. These reports gave the Russian empire a place on the world map of civilisations and epidemics.

Publications

  • Lisitsyna, Elena A. Bolezni Rossii: mediko-geograficheskie issledovaniya I. Ya. Lerkhe, in: Problemy sotsial'noĭ gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny, 2021, no. 4, p. 1011–1016 (in Russian)
  • Lisitsyna, Elena. From a Natural Object to a Medical Resource: The Production of Knowledge about Petroleum by Johann Jakob Lerche, in: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2020, no. 2. s. 9–28.
  • Lisitsyna, Elena A. Mediko-biologičeskoe obosnovanie sostojanija rossijskikh gorodov v trudakh J.J. Lerhe i E.D. Klarka, in: Novoe proshloe, no. 1 (2017), p. 132–146 (in Russian).