was a Japanese

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

specializing in

medical jurisprudence Medical jurisprudence or legal medicine is the branch of science and medicine involving the study and application of scientific and medical knowledge to legal problems, such as inquests, and in the field of law. As modern medicine is a legal c ...

.魂の仕事人西丸與一 Biography of Yoichi Nishimaru
His books were so popular that they became best-sellers in Japan.

Biography

Nishimaru was born in Yokohama. He studied medicine at Yokohama Medical College (present-day Yokohama City University School of Medicine), and was appointed Professor of

there in 1973. While working at Yokohama City University, he wrote some enlightening essays on

forensic medicine Forensic medicine is a broad term used to describe a group of medical specialties which deal with the examination and diagnosis of individuals who have been injured by or who have died because of external or unnatural causes such as poisoning, assa ...

, including ''Afternoon in the Forensic Medicine Classroom'' which was made into a TV program in Japan.法医学教室の午後 - ドラマ詳細データ - ◇テレビドラマデータベース◇
/ref> After retiring from Yokohama City University and becoming Professor Emeritus, he became a ship's doctor.

Works

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References

1927 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Japanese physicians Medical ethicists Japanese essayists Academic staff of Yokohama City University Yokohama City University alumni People from Yokohama {{Japan-med-bio-stub