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

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

Few, Martha
Tortorici, Zeb
Warren, Adam

Paperback

Series: Latin American Originals, Book 15

Central American HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0271086076
ISBN13: 9780271086071
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Feb 19 2020
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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 overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism Through Incision presents Arrese's complete treatise--translated here into English for the first time--with a critical introduction and excerpts from related primary source texts.

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