2007.05.29: May 29, 2007: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Writing - Malawi: Science: Medicine: Mathematics: Astronomy: Hampshire College: Malawi RPCV Helaine Selin’s academic interests concern different ways of doing medicine and science
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2007.05.29: May 29, 2007: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Writing - Malawi: Science: Medicine: Mathematics: Astronomy: Hampshire College: Malawi RPCV Helaine Selin’s academic interests concern different ways of doing medicine and science
Malawi RPCV Helaine Selin’s academic interests concern different ways of doing medicine and science
She is also the editor of a series called Science Across Cultures. In it, the breadth of the encyclopedia is complemented by books that explore the topics in greater depth. The first two books, Astronomy Across Cultures and Mathematics Across Cultures, were published in 2000. Medicine Across Cultures and Nature Across Cultures were published in 2002.
Malawi RPCV Helaine Selin’s academic interests concern different ways of doing medicine and science
Research Interests and Publications
Helaine’s academic interests concern different ways of doing medicine and science. She is the editor of the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Kluwer, 1997). The encyclopedia, a collection of almost 600 articles by almost 300 contributors, covers a range of topics from Aztec science and Chinese medicine to Tibetan astronomy and Indian ethnobotany. A new expanded edition, which will be both in print and on the web, entitled Encyclopaedia of the History of Non-Western Science: Natural Science, Technology and Medicine, should be out in 2007. She is also the editor of a series called Science Across Cultures. In it, the breadth of the encyclopedia is complemented by books that explore the topics in greater depth. The first two books, Astronomy Across Cultures and Mathematics Across Cultures, were published in 2000. Medicine Across Cultures and Nature Across Cultures were published in 2002.
She is also the co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Classical Indian Sciences, which should be out by the end of 2006.
In addition to the publications on science, Helaine has several articles on various aspects of being a librarian at Hampshire.
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