Burke's Hat & More: Edinburgh's Anatomical Past & Future

A hat thought to belong to Edinburgh's serial killer, William Burke, just went on display

at Surgeon's Hall Museum, kicking off a new exhibit, tied to, 300 years of the University

of Edinburgh's Faculty of Medicine.

The show opened on April 3rd, pulling together rare items like Charles Darwin's class card,

a Shetland Bloodhorn, and a cast of Burke's brain, plus.

For the first time, a piece of skin believed to be from Burke himself, loaned from another

museum.

Burke and his partner, William Hare, killed at least 16 folks back in the 1820s, selling

the bodies to anatomist Robert Knox for.

Lectures, spotlighting a dark era when consent wasn't even a thing in medical training.

This exhibit digs into Edinburgh's anatomical past, questioning who got dissected, whose

remains were kept, and who got shut out of medicine, like the Edinburgh 7.

The first women to start med school there in 1869, but deny graduation.

It wraps up by looking at today's ethical shifts, with voluntary body donors as silent

teachers and patient-donated surgical mesh, all part of a year-long push to rethink

medicine's future for fairness.

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