The doctor dissected [Elektronisk resurs] 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 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. 

Ämnesord

Murder in mass media.  (LCSH)

Body snatching  -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Murder  -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Collective memory  -- Scotland. (LCSH)

Murder in mass media  -- Scotland. (LCSH)

Crime in popular culture  -- Scotland. (LCSH)

English literature  -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Scottish literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Burke, William, 1792-1829 -- In mass media.

Hare, William, 1792?-1870? -- In mass media.

Knox, Robert, 1791-1862 -- In mass media.

Klassifikation

HV6535.G6 (LCC)

364.152320941340903 (DDC)

Oer (kssb/8 (machine generated))