Book Review

摘要

The Indian leprosy community has produced a magnificent new text book on leprosy. The current majorreference book used in the leprosy and dermatology community is 'Leprosy' edited by Hastings andpublished in 1994 and it remains widely used but is now somewhat dated. At the Indian Association ofLeprologists (IAL) meeting in 2007 it was decided to produce a new leprosy textbook under the aegisof IAL. All the 60 contributors are Indian, many of them working in government leprosy programmes,non-governmental organisations and academic departments. The book is edited by two academicdermatologists, from Delhi and Chandigarh respectively