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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bednarski, Steven - Courtemanche, Andrée, "«Sadly and with a bitter heart»: what the caesarean section meant in the Middle Ages", Florilegium, 28 (2011), 33-69.
- Resum
- This article contextualizes the history of the so-called caesarean section to argue that the history of obstetrics is written at the intersection of manifold cultural phenomena. The article presents a unique historical document, a notarized act of 1473 drawn up for a Provençal barber surgeon commissioned to extract a fetus from a corpse. The procedure it prescribes was technically a postmortem dissection, or sectio in mortua, a process linked to surgery and theology as much as to law, superstition, and inheritance. In addition to its analysis, the article presents a comprehensive critical historiography, a transcription and edition of its primary source, a table of other extant primary sources that reference sectiones in mortua, and a detailed bibliography.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
Dones
- URL
- https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/ ...
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