The anatomy of justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt

Islamic Law and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 224-271

  Fahmy, Khaled ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4344629247     PISSN: 09289380     EISSN: 15685195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568519991208682     Document Type: Review

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13. Peters, “Murder on the Nile,” 100-01.
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15. David Arnold, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), 4-6, 211, 217.
16. See Fahmy, “Women, medicine, and power,” 58, 71 n. 110.
17. Fahmy, “Women, medicine and power,” 52-54.
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