Helaine Selin

Helaine Selin (born 1946) is an American librarian, historian of science, author and book editor.

Career

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Selin attended Binghamton University, where she earned her bachelor's degree.[1] She received her MLS from SUNY Albany.[1] She was a Peace Corps volunteer from the fall of 1967 through the summer of 1969 as a teacher of English and African History in Karonga, Malawi.[1] She retired in 2012 from being the science librarian at Hampshire College.

Selin is known for being the editor of Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (1997, 2008 and third edition 2016) which is one of the first books which allows readers to "compare a variety of traditional systems of mathematics and cosmologies."[2] Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics (2000), is considered by Mathematical Intelligencer as a companion to the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.[3] The journal, Mathematics and Computer Education, wrote that Mathematics Across Cultures filled a gap in the history of mathematics and was "an exciting collection of papers on ethnomathematics."[4] Selin's editorial work, Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (2003), was considered by Polylog to be a "valuable source for intercultural philosophers."[5] Selin edited the Encyclopaedia of Classical Indian Sciences (2007).[6] She has also edited several more books in the Science Across Cultures series: Medicine Across Cultures, Nature and the Environment Across Cultures, Childbirth Across Cultures, Parenting Across Cultures (second edition 2022), Happiness Across Cultures, Death Across Cultures and Aging Across Cultures.

Work as an editor

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  • Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (1997)[7]
  • Astronomy Across Cultures: the history of non-Western astronomy (2000) (with Xiaochun Sun)[8]
  • Mathematics Across Cultures: the history of non-western mathematics (2000) (with Ubiratan D'Ambrosio)[9]
  • Medicine Across Cultures: history and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures (2003) (with Hugh Shapiro)[10]
  • Nature Across Cultures: views of nature and the environment in non-western cultures (2003) (with Arne Kalland)[11]
  • Encyclopaedia of classical Indian sciences (2007) (with Roddam Narasimha)
  • Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures 2nd ed. (2008) and 3rd ed. (2016)[12]
  • Childbirth across cultures: ideas and practices of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum (2009) (with Pamela Kendall Stone)[13]
  • Happiness across cultures: views of happiness and quality of life in non-Western cultures (2012) (with Gareth Davey)[14]
  • Parenting Across Cultures: Childrearing, Motherhood and Fatherhood in Non-Western Cultures (2014) and 2nd ed. (2022)[15]
  • Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures (2019) (with Robert Rakoff) [16]
  • Aging Across Cultures: Growing Old in the Non-Western World (2021)[17]
  • Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological and Psychological Perspectives (2022) (with Hilal H. Sen)[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "About Helaine". Helaine Selin. Hampshire College. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ^ Merson, John (1999). "A Massive Compendium - But No CD-Rom!". Metascience. 8: 494. Retrieved 22 January 2016 – via EBSCO.
  3. ^ Bellosta, Héléne (2005). "Mathematics Across Cultures". Mathematical Intelligencer. 27 (2): 85–88. doi:10.1007/BF02985803. S2CID 121462154.
  4. ^ Rauff, James V. (1 October 2002). "Mathematics across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics". Mathematics and Computer Education. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  5. ^ Baatz, Ursula (2004). "Nature Across Cultures". Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy. ISSN 1616-2943. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. ^ "An Authentic Version of History of Indian Science". The Hindu. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. ^ Selin, Helaine, ed. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2.
  8. ^ Astronomy Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 1. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. 2000. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6. ISBN 978-94-010-5820-9.
  9. ^ Mathematics Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 2. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. 2000. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4301-1. ISBN 978-1-4020-0260-1.
  10. ^ Selin, Helaine, ed. (2003). Medicine Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 3. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. doi:10.1007/0-306-48094-8. ISBN 1-4020-1166-0.
  11. ^ Nature Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 4. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. 2003. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5. ISBN 978-90-481-6271-0.
  12. ^ Selin, Helaine, ed. (2008). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd ed.). New York, Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2.
  13. ^ Childbirth Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 5. Dordrecht; New York: Springer. 2012. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2599-9. ISBN 978-90-481-2598-2.
  14. ^ Happiness Across Cultures. Science across cultures. Vol. 6. Dordrecht; New York: Springer. 2012. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7. ISBN 978-94-007-2699-4.
  15. ^ Parenting Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Dordrecht; New York: Springer. 2014. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7503-9. ISBN 978-94-007-7502-2.
  16. ^ Death Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Vol. 9. Dordrecht, New York: Springer. 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9. ISBN 978-3-030-18825-2.
  17. ^ Aging Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Vol. 10. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. 2021. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76501-9. ISBN 978-3-030-76500-2.
  18. ^ Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Vol. 11. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08208-5. ISBN 978-3-031-08207-8.
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