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

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The help and encouragement I received from friends and colleagues made writing this book a delight. I would like to thank all the people who assisted and encouraged my research in Scotland : Michael Barfoot, Adam Budd, Gayle Davis, and Steve Sturdy, Edinburgh University; Andrew Connell, Dawn Kemp, and Marianne Smith, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Iain Milne, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Rosemary Elliot and Malcolm Nicolson, Glasgow University. I’d also like to thank Richard Hunter and the staff of the Edinburgh City Archives, John Lawson, City of Edinburgh Council, and Victoria Endean, The Signet Library, as well as the curators and staff at the National Library of Scotland, the Edinburgh Room of the Edinburgh Central Library, the Edinburgh University Library, the National Archives of Scotland, and the General Register Office for Scotland. Thank you all for making Scotland a paradise for historians. Closer to home, I would like to thank Anna Dhody, Robert Hicks, and the library staff of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Stacey Peebles, Pennsylvania Hospital Historical Collections; John Pollack, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. I would also like to thank the Historical Collections of the New York Academy of Medicine Library and the Research Collection, New York Public Library. Many thanks to Susan Bucikowski and the Interlibrary Loan department at Stockton College, and to David Pinto, Director of the Stockton Library, for his continued support of this vital research tool. I have benefited from the enthusiastic and penetrating feedback Burke and Hare seems to inspire. Special thanks to the organizers and participants of the History of Medicine Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, the 328 Acknowledgments Edinburgh History of Medicine Group, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Regional Forum for the History of Scottish Medicine, Glasgow University, and the Lees Seminar, Rutgers University–Camden. I would also like to thank Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University, and the anonymous reviewer for the University of Pennsylvania Press. As always, Penn Press is a delight to work with. Many thanks to Jerry Singerman, for his continued support for the dark side of medical history, and to Stephanie Brown, Sandra Haviland, John Hubbard, Yumeko Kawano, Robert Milks, Noreen O’Connor-Abel, and Ellen Trachtenberg. Thank you to all my friends and colleagues who read, commented on, or listened to me talk about this book: Eithne and William Bearden, Robert Gregg, Michael Hayse, Rodger Jackson, Bill Lubenow, Michelle McDonald , Linda Merians, Sharon Musher, Robert Nichols, Maryann McLoughlin , Kate Ogden, Beth Olsen, Tom Papademetriou, and Laura Zucconi. And thank you to the friends and family in Great Britain who always make my trips a pleasure: Shelley and Ron Debate, Helen Dingwall, John and Elizabeth Grant, Jane Kellett, Tony Kennedy, and Jane Rendall. Finally, heartfelt thanks to John Theibault, Alice Theibault, Monica Theibault, Lillian Rosner, and Henry Rosner. I couldn’t have done it without you. ...