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Author:

Few, Martha, 1964- author.

Title:

Baptism through incision : the postmortem cesarean operation in the Spanish Empire / Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiv, 135 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Arrese, Pedro José de,---1795.--Rudimentos fisico-canonico-morales.
Cesarean section--Spain--History--18th century.
Cesarean section--Spain--History--History--18th century.
Baptism--History--History--18th century.
Medicine--History--Catholic Church--History--18th century.
Baptism--Catholic Church.
Cesarean section.
Medicine--Catholic Church.--Catholic Church.
Spain.
1700-1799
History.

Other Authors:

Tortorici, Zeb, 1978- author.
Warren, Adam, Ph.D. author.
Arrese, Pedro José de, -1795. Rudimentos fisico-canonico-morales. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : postmortem cesareans; Pedro José de Arrese's Guatemalan treatise in historical context -- Arrese's text : Physical, canonical, moral principles ... on the baptism of miscarried fetuses and the cesarean operation on women who die pregnant / translated by Nina M. Scott -- Additional translations from across the Spanish Empire / translated by Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. Excerpt from Spain ; Excerpts from colonial Peru and Río de la Plata ; Excerpts from colonial Guatemala ; Excerpts from colonial New Spain.

Summary:

"Explores the history of the postmortem cesarean operation, which was performed in order to extract the fetus and save its soul through baptism. Examines accounts of the operation from across the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Latin American originals

ISBN:

0271086076
9780271086071

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1134461907

LCCN:

2019056791

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)