Download or read book Healing Virtue-Power written by Sabine Wilms and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Virtue-Power: Medical Ethics and the Doctor's Dao is a conversation across time and space, between the seventh-century hermit S?n S?mi?o and the contemporary translator Sabine Wilms, to address two sets of questions at the heart of the most ancient and precious texts in Chinese medicine:How do we find the DÀO OF MEDICINE? How do we walk the PATH OF THE HEALER?How do we cultivate DÉ "VIRTUE-POWER"? How do we learn and teach, recognize and transmit, replenish and nurture our HEALING SUPERPOWER?To explore these questions and potential answers from the 7th-century Chinese and modern Western perspective, this book includes:? Literal, line-by-line translations of S?n S?mi?o's two essays "On the Professional Practice of the Great Doctor" and "On the Sublime Sincerityof the Great Doctor," which constitute the first two chapters of his Bèijí qi?nj?n yàof?ng from 652 CE, in Dr. Wilms' trademark lucid style andelegant layout with the original Chinese text plus Pinyin transcription on the opposite page.? 102 pages of detailed notes and discussions that provide historical, religious, philosophical, and medical context for S?n S?mi?o's writings.? A 30-page preface by Dr. Wilms on "Honoring Whose Whose Shoulders We Stand On" and a 36-page conclusion by Dr. Wilms on "Acting by Non-Action: Thee Last Word?"? Forewords by Michael Max and Z'ev Rosenberg.