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

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

Latin American Originals

Martha Few, Adam Warren, Zeb Tortorici

152 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion

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In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro Jos 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...

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