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Burke & Hare / Owen Dudley Edwards.

Title
Burke & Hare / Owen Dudley Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Owen Dudley
Publication
Edinburgh : Mercat, 1993.

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Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Description
xix, 300 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
Summary
In nineteenth-century Scotland, two Irish laborers devised a scheme -- sell unclaimed corpses to the Edinburgh medical community. Their chief buyer was Dr. Robert Knox, whose personal ambition created a voracious need for more human corpses. However, Burke and Hare soon ran out of unclaimed bodies ... so they turned to grave-robbing and eventually murder as a money-making enterprise.
Alternative Title
Burke and Hare
Subject
  • Hare, William, 1792?-1870?
  • Burke, William, 1792-1829
  • Social Conditions
  • Homicide
  • Dissection
  • Trials (Murder) > Edinburgh
  • Murder > Edinburgh > Case studies
  • Cadaver
  • Grave Robbing > history
  • Scotland
  • Murder
  • Edinburgh (Scotland)
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
  • Association copies (Provenance)
Note
  • Previous ed.: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1980.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1873644256 (pbk)
LCCN
gb^94018176^
OCLC
  • 38055765
  • SCSB-10939956
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library