Papers in the Biological Sciences
Date of this Version
2014
Citation
Journal of Parasitology (2014) 100(6): 700-707. DOI: 10.1645/14-643.1.
Abstract
Addresses four topics that characterize the discipline of parasitology and are largely missing from our national conversation in the United States about education, especially at the college and university level. Those topics are the production of transferable skills; our perceptions of the world, especially the natural world; access to reasonably difficult problems in natural settings; and intellectual epidemiology, or the movement of ideas, innovations, and cultural items through populations. These topics have been a part of the author's discussions with fellow parasitologists for at least half a century, beginning with his choice to pursue a graduate degree under the supervision of Dr. J. Teague Self at the University of Oklahoma, so this finishes the author's career in the same way it started.
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Comments
Copyright 2014, American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.