Overview

In her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, including child bride, wife, mother, lover, adventuress, slave trader, writer, and home-taught physician. She successfully carved out a viable niche for herself, navigating the multicultural, multiethnic, and varied religious environment of Europe’s eastern periphery. Despite limited expectations for female professionals, she became a highly sought after and well-respected practitioner of the medical arts and rose to the position of court physician to Turkish pashas and Hungarian princes, and even to Sultan Mustafa III. My Life’s Travels and Adventures—part memoir, part autobiography, and part travelogue—provides a view into eighteenth-century social, professional, and gender interactions and weaves a rich narrative replete with vignettes of love, travel, and popular superstitions important to our historical, ethnographic, and religious understanding of the era. This edition brings the entirety of this personal and idiosyncratic memoir to English for the first time.  

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Author:   Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa ,  Wladyslaw Roczniak
Publisher:   Iter Press
Imprint:   Iter Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.538kg
ISBN:  

9781649590046

ISBN 10:   1649590040
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   30 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction The Other Voice Her Life, Her Book, and Her Times The Emancipate’s Journey Pilsztynowa as Other, Pilsztynowa and Others Note on Locations and Translation My Life’s Travels and Adventures Preface, To the Estimable Reader Chapter One, First Journey to Istanbul, and Other Adventures Chapter Two, My Second Marriage, and Other Adventures Chapter Three, The Disagreement with Mr. Bekierski, and My Cavalier Chapter Four, My Second Arrival in Istanbul Chapter Five, The Turkish Sect Chapter Six, The Route to Jerusalem Chapter Seven, About Fasting on Saturdays Appendix One: Glossary of Places Appendix Two: Pilsztynowa’s Patients Appendix Three: Chronology Bibliography Index

Reviews

Thanks entirely to the discovery of her lost memoir at the end of the nineteenth century, Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa enjoys the reputation of being the first female doctor in Polish history. And how all this came about is a fascinating story, vividly conveyed in Roczniak's tour-de-force translation. . . . Pilsztynowa's compelling story as told in this splendid critical edition is worthy of her legacy. --Barry Keane, University of Warsaw

Author Information

Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (1718–after 1763) was a Catholic Polish woman who was known as Poland’s first female doctor. WładysławRoczniak is professor of history at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Hospitals in Pre-Modern Poland from the Twelfth through the Eighteenth Century.  

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