Ss. Kennedy et al., "And afterwards your body to be given for public dissection": A history ofthe murderers dissected in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, SCOT MED J, 46(1), 2001, pp. 20-24
Between 1752 and 1832, the bodies of hanged murderers were dissected or gib
beted. During this period, 38 murderers were executed in the West of Scotla
nd. The bodies of at least 23 were dissected in Glasgow. The stories of the
se murders are recounted Insight is also given into the attitudes of the pu
blic and the anatomists to dissection of executed murderers.