04741nam 22006615 450 991100928180332120231110232016.09780271086743027108674210.1515/9780271086743(CKB)5470000000570994(DE-B1597)584578(DE-B1597)9780271086743(MiAaPQ)EBC6895018(Au-PeEL)EBL6895018(OCoLC)1309033040(OCoLC)1253313748(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103454(MiAaPQ)EBC31784096(Au-PeEL)EBL31784096(OCoLC)1280069777(Perlego)4395326(EXLCZ)99547000000057099420210526h20212020 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBaptism Through Incision The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire /Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren1st ed.University Park, PA :Penn State University Press,[2021]©20201 online resource (152 p.) 3 illustrations/1 mapLatin American Originals ;159780271086071 0271086076 9780271086729 0271086726 Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Translator's Note --Introduction: Postmortem Cesareans and Pedro José de Arrese's Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Context --Contributors --1. Arrese's Text: Physical, Canonical, Moral Principles . . . on the Baptism of Miscarried Fetuses and the Cesarean Operation on Women Who Die Pregnant --2. Additional Translations from Across the Spanish Empire --Glossary --Bibliography --IndexIn 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.Inspired by priests' writings published in Spain and Sicily beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, Arrese and writers like him in Peru, Mexico, Alta California, Guatemala, and the Philippines penned local medico-religious manuals and guides for performing the operation and baptism. Comparing these texts to one another and placing them in dialogue with archival cases and print culture references, this book traces the genealogy of the postmortem cesarean operation throughout the Spanish Empire and reconstructs the transatlantic circulation of obstetrical and scientific knowledge around childbirth and reproduction. In doing so, it shows that knowledge about cesarean operations and fetal baptism intersected with local beliefs and quickly became part of the new ideas and scientific-medical advancements circulating broadly among transatlantic Enlightenment cultures.A valuable resource for scholars and students of colonial Latin American history, the history of medicine, and the history of women, reproduction, and childbirth, Baptism Through Incision includes translated excerpts of works by Spanish surgeon Jaime Alcalá y Martínez, Mexican physician Ignacio Segura, and Peruvian friar Francisco González Laguna, as well as late colonial Guatemalan instructions, and newspaper articles published in the Gazeta de México, the Gazeta de Guatemala, and the Mercurio Peruano.Latin American Originals HISTORY / Latin America / Central AmericabisacshHISTORY / Latin America / Central America.Few Marthaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1825766Scott Nina M1825767Few Marthactbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbScott Ninactbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbTortorici Zebauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autTortorici Zebctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbWarren Adamauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autWarren Adamctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911009281803321Baptism Through Incision4393673UNINA