Slaves (nubi奴婢) in Daoxuan’s Vinaya writings

Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya

Selected Writings

This paper discusses the role of interpretation in innovative design and proposes an approach to providing computer support for interpretation in design. According to situated cognition theory, most of a designer’s knowledge is normally tacit. Situated interpretation is the process of explicating something that is tacitly understood, within its larger context. The centrality of interpretation t...

Hippocratic writings

The re-appearance of old friends is always a cause for rejoicing, and when Cbadwick and Mann's The medical works of Hippocrates (less Coan Prognosis) comes revised with Withington's version of Fractures, three excellent new translations by I. M. Lonie, and a masterly introduction by G. E. R. Lloyd, our pleasure is great indeed. The older versions need no praise, and Lonie's fluent and judicious...

My Writings

This document contains descriptions of almost all my technical papers. Omitted are papers for which I no longer have copies and papers that are incomplete. I have also omitted early versions of some of these papers—even in cases where the title changed. Included are some initial drafts of papers that I abandoned before fixing errors or other problems in them. A table of contents precedes the de...

Slaves to medicine.

In a provocative new book, 1 George Beauchamp, MD, claims that physicians are “slaves to medicine.” He explains that this is partly because “when most people go to see a doctor, both the services the doctor provides and the fees that insurance companies allow him to charge are largely predetermined by parties other than the patients and doctors.” Most patients, in turn, feel completely powerles...