New multi authored text book of Leprosy

Leprosy Mailing List – February 10^th, 2010

Ref.: New multi authored text book of Leprosy

From: P. Narasimha Rao, Hyderabad , India

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Dear Salvatore,

I am happy to inform our LML members that a new multi authored "IAL text book of leprosy' edited by Dr HK Kar and Dr Bhushan Kumar, was released at the national conference of Indian Association of Leprologists (IAL) in October 2009. Now the same is available for purchase for all, published by Jaypee bothers medical publishers of India . The “url” for the same is given below.

It is a multi authored comprehensive text book of leprosy of about 600 glossy pages with coloured illustrations and detailed model charts for recording patients details etc. It has 9 sections and a total of 47 chapters with references at end of each chapter.

http://www.jaypeebrothers.com/pgDetails.aspx?cat=s&book_id=978-81-8448-852-4#

If we recollect, we had a discussion whether there is a need for a comprehensive text book of leprosy about two to three years back on this forum. I hope this text book would fill the lack of such a comprehensive text book on leprosy with latest details which was felt by few of us. I am happy to state that I was a part of this endeavor.

I would recommend this book for all who are teaching leprosy and also as a reference book for medical colleges and other institutes working on leprosy.

With best regards,

P. Narasimha Rao