LEADER 04686nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910788369703321 005 20230725040420.0 010 $a1-283-89034-8 010 $a0-8122-0355-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203554 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046979 035 $a(OCoLC)794700615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576118 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605760 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11374127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605760 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10589909 035 $a(PQKB)11085187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441677 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11961 035 $a(DE-B1597)449184 035 $a(OCoLC)1013960919 035 $a(OCoLC)979954197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441677 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576118 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420284 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046979 100 $a20090519d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe anatomy murders$b[electronic resource] $ebeing the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare, and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes /$fLisa Rosner 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2176-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Burke and Hare Murders --$tChapter One: The Corpus Delicti --$tChapter Two: The Anatomy Wars --$tChapter Three: Burking Invented --$tChapter Four: Sold to Dr. Knox --$tChapter Five: Based on a True Story --$tChapter Six: The Dangerous Classes --$tChapter Seven: Anonymous Subjects --$tChapter Eight: The Criminal Mind --$tChapter Ten: Day in Court --$tChapter Eleven: All That Remains --$tCast of Characters --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aUp the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef.-anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer. 606 $aMurder$zScotland$zEdinburgh$vCase studies 606 $aMurder$zScotland$zEdinburgh$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aEdinburgh (Scotland)$xHistory 610 $a35. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aMurder 615 0$aMurder$xHistory 676 $a364.152/309224134 700 $aRosner$b Lisa$0541989 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788369703321 996 $aThe anatomy murders$93840574 997 $aUNINA