Caroline McCracken-Flesher. The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).

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spective are remarkably similar to Leeson’s, and it would be interesting to see how the Black and Tans compare to these and other policemen in wartime. To regret that Leeson has not placed his work more firmly within a global context is simply to regret that historians outside of Ireland may not pay enough attention to what is many ways a model of how this sort of research should be done. Among Irish historians, this book is sure to become the standard work on the Black and Tans and will, one hopes, go some way toward dispelling the myths that still surround these men. This is revisionist history in the best possible sense of the term.