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THE ANATOMY MURDERS
BEING THE TRUE AND SPECTACULAR HISTORY OF EDINBURGH'S NOTORIOUS BURKE AND HARE AND OF THE MAN OF SCIENCE WHO ABETTED THEM IN THE COMMISSION OF THEIR M |
| By: |
Lisa Rosner |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£33.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0812203550 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780812203554 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2010 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, accused of killing sixteen people in order to sell their cadavers as "subjects" for dissection. The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century England into modernity. |
| Synopsis: |
Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, accused of killing sixteen people in order to sell their cadavers as "subjects" for dissection. The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century England into modernity. |
| Illustrations: |
20 illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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