The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders / 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 D...
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