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

ISBN-13: 9780271086071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str.

Martha Few; Zeb Tortorici; Adam Warren

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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.