Fleshmarket

About this book

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • history
  • medicine
  • physicians
  • poverty
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 9