{"product_id":"baptism-through-incision-9780271086071","title":"Baptism Through Incision","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBaptism Through Incision\u003c\/i\u003e offer[s] a varied, rich perspective on the ways in which print culture, pickled with the ideologies of patriarchy, white supremacy, and empire, has determined women’s bodies as sites of contention across space and time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Kathleen Alves \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This illuminating volume should encourage readers to revisit assumptions about rigid medical specialties and academic disciplines centered on the study of the human person. We are challenged to rethink the rise of the modern medical profession and the role of religious people, worldviews, and institutions in it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Paul Ramírez,author of \u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator’s Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Postmortem Cesareans and Pedro José de Arrese’s Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Arrese’s Text: Physical, Canonical, Moral Principles . . . on the Baptism of Miscarried Fetuses and the Cesarean Operation on Women Who Die Pregnant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Nina M. Scott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Additional Translations from Across the Spanish Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from Colonial Peru and Río de la Plata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from Colonial Guatemala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from Colonial New Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400809685335,"sku":"9780271086071","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/baptism-through-incision-9780271086071","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}