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Although I began my career as a biologist, I moved after my first degree to history and social studies of science. My main research interest has been in the history of science policy and scientific assistance to developing countries. When I began this work some ten years ago, the subject of “science for development” was attracting a lot of interest amongst sociologists and political scientists, yet all of the literature started with the great United Nations Conference in 1963. It was a subject without a history and I set out to write that history. I was aware when I started that much scientific work had been pursued in the “South” from the 19th century and earlier, but such was the quantity of material I found, that my original intention to deal with matters right up to 1963 had to be abandoned. I have since concentrated on the British Colonial Empire in the period up to 1940. It is events up to that date that I shall discuss in this paper, although with a wider Reoiaraphical focus.
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Worboys, M. (1983). Emergence and Early Development of Parasitology. In: Warren, K.S., Bowers, J.Z. (eds) Parasitology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5550-5_1
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