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