Alexander Monro (tertius) Charles found the sight of surgery so upsetting that he stopped trying and turned his attention to natural history. During Monro's tenure as Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh was rocked by scandal due to the notorious "Burke and Hare murders" in which healthy individuals were intentionally killed in order to supply cadavers for dissection by anatomy lecturers and their students. One of the murderers, William Burke, was hanged on 28 January 1829, after which he was famously dissected at the Edinburgh Medical College by Monro himself. In a letter, Monro dipped his quill pen into Burke's blood and wrote, "This is
Doctors for Global Health in the first People's Health Assembly. The gathering culminated in the writing of the People's Charter for Health, of which DGH was a co-signer. DGH continues to work closely with People's Health Movement to promote human rights internationally. DGH works jointly with members of the Italian NGO Psicologi per I Popoli on several projects focused on improving the mental health of the communities in which DGH has a presence. Doctors for Global Health http://www.dghonline.org (official website) CoCoSI http://www.cocosi.org Primeros Pasos http://www.primerospasos.org/ People's Health Movement http://www.phmovement.org Psicologi Per i Populi http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/ DGH Reporter Newsletter: Doctors for Global Health 1995-2005 Retrospective DGH's