Burke and Hare

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

People: William Burke (1792-1829),  William Burke (1792-1829,),  William Hare (1792?-1870?)

Places: Scotland,  Edinburgh,  Edinburgh (Lothian)