The doctor dissected
a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders
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Publication
2012 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780199766826
- ISBN-100199766827
- Library of Congress Control Number2011041415
- OCLC Control Number724665634
- Better World Books9780199766826
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25054935M
Classifications
- DDC820.9/3556
- LCCPR8518 .M33 2012
- LCCHV6535.G6
Description
A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of Dr. Robert Knox, who was desperate for anatomical subjects. Nearly two hundred years later, these scandalous murders continue to fire imagination in Scotland and beyond.
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