Title: Burke & Hare
First published: 1980
Description: 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.
Subjects: Murder, Trials (Murder), Trials, litigation, Case studies, Scotland, English Law, Local history, Nonfiction / Crime, Burke, William, Hare, William, History, Medicine, Edinburgh, Trials (murder), great britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Hare, william , 1792?-1870, Burke, william , 1792-1829, Hare, william , 1792?-1870?, Social conditions, Homicide, Dissection, Trials (murder)--scotland--edinburgh, Murder--case studies, Murder--scotland--edinburgh--case studies, Cadaver, Grave robbing--history, Edinburgh (scotland), Hv6535.s33 e34 1995, Wz 320 e26b 1993, 364.15230922, Grave Robbing
Places: Scotland, Edinburgh, Edinburgh (Lothian)
People: William Burke (1792-1829), William Burke (1792-1829,), William Hare (1792?-1870?), William Hare, William Hare (1792?-1870?,)