Baptism Through Incision

The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire

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.

février 2020, Latin American Originals, Anglais
University Presses
978-0-271-08607-1

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