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9 entries match Anatomy & Pathology [G02.149 / C23] · Ethics & Law [K01.750 / K01.690] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1948 CE
#6992
[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.
Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1998 CE
#10685
Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …
2009 CE
#9332
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.
2020 CE
#12989
The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.
"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses…
1896 CE
#444.1
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers…
1953 CE
#6623.01
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…
2012 CE
#9330
The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.
2004 CE
#9996
The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.
2009 CE
#9811
The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…