Baptism Through Incision : : The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire /

Baptism Through Incision : : The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire / / Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren.

In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the over...

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VerfasserIn:
Few, Martha,
Tortorici, Zeb,
Warren, Adam,
MitwirkendeR:
Few, Martha,
Scott, Nina,
Tortorici, Zeb,
Warren, Adam,
TeilnehmendeR:
Scott, Nina M.
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Latin American Originals ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.) :; 3 illustrations/1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator’s Note
  • Introduction: Postmortem Cesareans and Pedro José de Arrese’s Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Context
  • Contributors
  • 1. Arrese’s Text: Physical, Canonical, Moral Principles . . . on the Baptism of Miscarried Fetuses and the Cesarean Operation on Women Who Die Pregnant
  • 2. Additional Translations from Across the Spanish Empire
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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