E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten
Rosner The Anatomy Murders
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8122-0355-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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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 Most Heinous Crimes
E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8122-0355-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.