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

by Adam Warren, Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, et al.

In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro Jos 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086076
• ISBN13: 9780271086071
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"