Title: Fleshmarket
Description: In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
Subjects: Physicians, Fiction, Poverty, Medicine, History, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12
Places: Scotland
People: Robert Knox (1791-1862)
Time periods: 19th century