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Global Pathology Supercourse
Fifty Years History of the WASP*

Tadashi Kawai, MD, PhD

Past WASP President; Medical Director,
the International Clinical Pathology Center, Tokyo;
Professor Emeritus, the Jichi Medical School,
Tochigi, Japan
E-mail address : tkawai@hh.iij4u.or.jp

* Presented at the XXth World Congress of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
held at Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 17-21, 1999

Introduction
Prehistoric Movement to "a World Federation"
The International Society of Clinical Pathology (ISCP)
1. Hitory of the International Society
2. Fundamental problems associated with the ISCP
World Association of Societies of (Anatomic and Clinical) Pathology (WASP)
1. History of the World Association
2. Major activities of the World Association
Recent Topics on the WASP