How the Scottish anatomist who bought Burke and Hare's victims developed radical ideas about sexual biology

In a new book, Dr Ross Brooks rediscovers the science of sex that occupied the anatomist at the centre of the Burke and Hare scandal in 19th-century Edinburgh


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