Baptism Through Incision : The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire /
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...
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Latin American Originals ;
15 |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
