Published January, 2010
By A. W. Bates
Publisher: Elsevier (Sussex Academic Press)
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Robert Knox is remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. This biography examines the influence of Knox's radical upbringing, Parisian training and ethnological studies in the Cape Colony on the development of his 'higher' anatomy.

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