The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China
ISBN: 9781938937033
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Forensic pathology -- Early works to 1800; Coroners -- China -- Early works to 1800; Coroners -- China -- History;

T'zu's The Washing Away of Wrongs (Hsi yüan chi lu) , printed in 1247, is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. Written as a guide for magistrates in conducting inquests, the book is a major source on early Chinese knowledge of pathology and morbid anatomy. Includes a lengthy introductory essay by the translator.

Brian E. McKnight is Department Head and Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona.

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