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The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders
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- Creator
- Caroline McCracken-Flesher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613427977, 1283427974, 0190252855, 9780199766826, 0199910316, 0199766827, 0190208597
- OCLC
- ocn724665634, ocn773827804
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Medicine, murder, and Scottish story: Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare -- The story begins: The law versus the press, and the doctor versus Walter Scott -- Enlightened system versus religious sympathy: The sensational tales of Alexander Leigton and David Pae -- Dissecting the doctor: Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox -- Anatomizing the audience: James Bridie, melodrama, and the movies -- Bringing out the dead: Silent victims speak in Alasdair Gray's Poor things -- Resting in pieces? Present comforts or restless futures in Ian Rankin's Scotland