Fleshmarket

By Nicola Morgan

Subjects: Physicians, Poverty, Reading Level-Grade 12, Reading Level-Grade 9, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, History, Reading Level-Grade 10, Medicine

Description: 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.