History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times
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1884
English
- Preface and Introduction. The Resurrectionist Movement—Its Contributing Causes and Results
- Ch.1 Early Prohibition of Dissection
- Ch.2 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Students
- Ch.3 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Doctors
- Ch.4 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Professional Body-Snatchers
- Ch.5 The Early Life of Burke and Hare
- Ch.6 Negotiations With Doctors
- Ch.7 New Prospects
- Ch.8 Qualms of Conscience
- Ch.9 Unknown Victims
- Ch.10 Old Mary Haldane and her daughter Peggy
- Ch.11 A Narrow Escape
- Ch.12 Jealousy
- Ch.13 “Daft Jamie”
- Ch.14 Daft Jamie on the Dissecting Table
- Ch.15 The End Approaches
- Ch.16 An Ill Excuse
- Ch.17 The Arrest of Burke and M‘Dougal
- Ch.18 Public Excitement
- Ch.19 The Indictment against Burke and M‘Dougal
- Ch.20 Public Anticipation of the Trial
- Ch.21 The Trial of Burke and M‘Dougal
- Ch.22 The Trial
- Ch.23 Burke Sentenced to Death
- Ch.24 The Interest in the Trial
- Ch.25 Burke’s Behaviour in Prison
- Ch.26 “The Complicity of the Doctors”
- Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife
- Ch.28 Burke’s Spiritual Condition
- Ch.29 Lecture on Burke’s Body
- Ch.30 Hare’s Position after the Trial
- Ch.31 Hare’s Case before the High Court of Justiciary
- Ch.32 Popular Feeling against Hare
- Ch.33 The Confessions of Burke
- Ch.34 Murderers, but not Body-Snatchers
- Ch.35 Burke’s Account of his Life
- Ch.36 The Fate of Hare
- Ch.37 Dr. Knox’s Connection with Burke and Hare
- Ch.38 Inquiry into Dr. Knox’s Relations with Burke and Hare
- Ch.39 English Newspapers on the West Port Tragedies
- Ch.40 The Relations of the Doctors and the Body-Snatchers
- Ch.41 “Burking” in London
- Ch.42 The Passing of the Anatomy Act
- Ch.43 Conclusion
- 44 APPENDIX - The Case Against Torrence and Waldie
- 45 APPENDIX - Interview with Burke in Prison
- 46 APPENDIX - Confession of Bishop and Williams, the London “Burkers”
- 47 APPENDIX - Song and Ballads
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an interest as those which took place during what have been called the Resurrectionist Times, and notably, the dreadful series of murders perpetrated in the name of anatomical science by Burke and Hare.
In the preparation of this work the Author has had a double purpose before him. He has sought not only to record faithfully the lives and crimes of Burke and Hare, and their two female associates, but also to present a general view of the Resurrectionist movement from its earliest inception until the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832, when the violation of the sepulchres of the dead for scientific purposes was rendered unnecessary, and absolutely inexcusable."
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