Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare -- 2. The Story Begins: The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott -- 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leighton and David Pae -- 4. Dissecting the Doctor: Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox -- 5. Anatomizing the Audience: James Bridie, Melodrama, and the Movies -- 6. Bringing Out the Dead: Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things -- 7. Resting in Pieces? Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin's Scotland -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.