Baptism Through Incision
Few, Martha (Professor, Pennsylvania State University) / Tortorici, Zeb (Associate Professor, New York University) / Warren, Adam (Associate Professor, University of Washington) / Scott, Nina M. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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.