The Doctor Dissected. A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders

Author	McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
Year	2012
Publisher	Oxford: OUP
Number of pages	304
ISBN	9780199766826
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Abstract

Publisher's Note (2012): Vividily illustrated, The Doctor Dissected examines the sensational serial killings - known as the Anatomy Murders - that roiled Scotland in the early nineteenth century and considers their checkered afterlife in novels, plays, and films.