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The St Andrew's Day Lecture with Professor Gordon Findlater

Date(s): 28 November 2014

Time: 18.00

Cost: Free

Booking Link: http://standrewstalk2014.eventbrite.co.uk

With the increase in anatomy schools in the eighteenth century, a growing demand for bodies for dissection provided ideal conditions for the infamous serial killers, Burke and Hare. Join Edinburgh Museum of Anatomy's Gordon Findlater to discover the historic landscape of Edinburgh, where Burke and Hare prayed on the vulnerable to sell bodies to anatomist Robert Knox

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