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The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
The Doctor Dissected A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
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 anatomic...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199766826
ISBN-10: 0199766827
Publication Date: 1/27/2012
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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