суббота, 3 марта 2012 г.

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 Most Heinous Crimes.(Book review)

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 Most Heinous Crimes, by Lisa Rosner. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. vi, 328 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).

What can there be new to say about the Burke and Hare murders? In Edinburgh in 1827-28 William Burke and William Hare killed sixteen people to supply anatomists with corpses for dissection. Famously, their means of suffocation became known as "burking" (holding the mouth and nostrils closed while compressing the chest of drunken, insensible victims). Burke was publicly hanged, Hare turned King's evidence and fled. Sensational at the time, while the episode has been fodder for the popular media ever since. It is …

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