The doctor dissected
The doctor dissected
About this book
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.
Subjects
Scottish authorsCrime in popular cultureEnglish literatureLiterature and historyMurder in mass mediaNational characteristics, Scottish, in literatureHistory and criticismHomicideGrave RobbingHistoryAutopsyIn mass mediaBody snatchingMurderCollective memoryScottish literature