TY - BOOK ID - 30919216 TI - The doctor dissected PY - 2012 SN - 0190252855 1283427974 9786613427977 0199910316 0199766827 9780199910311 9780190252854 9780199766826 0190208597 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Literature and history KW - Crime in popular culture KW - English literature KW - Murder in mass media KW - National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. KW - Scottish authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Burke, William, KW - Hare, William, KW - Knox, Robert, KW - In mass media. KW - History and literature KW - History and poetry KW - Poetry and history KW - Knox, R. KW - Knox, KW - Burke, Willm. KW - Mass media KW - Popular culture KW - History KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Edinburgh (Lothian) KW - City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Dun Eideann (Scotland) KW - Duneideann (Scotland) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30919216 AB - A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of Dr. Robert Knox, who was desperate for anatomical subjects. Nearly two hundred years later, these scandalous murders continue to fire imagination in Scotland and beyond. From the start, the sensational events provoked artists and writers. While Sir Walter Scott resisted public comment, his correspond ER -