Excellent introduction to leprosy past – and future – here by Prof Alice Roberts💙 for the New Scientist conference. youtube.com/watch?v=EXG1hA…

“The leaders think that, if India becomes leprosy-free, other countries will look at them better,” Welcome to the Leprosy x Capital crux. theguardian.com/global-develop… By Simar Bajaj

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Brazil's health authority will start to test a new vaccine for leprosy on humans www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…

Our piece made tbe front page of The Continent .

If you read one thing today, make it this conflicted elegy to Sontag by Oliver Basciano on the strange joy of hating your heroes artreview.com/the-monstrous-…

My name, on a book! First, early draft, proofs are available for Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. If you are a bookseller, events organiser or international publisher, and would like one (and I really hope you do), hit Mo up. More soon!

Great book!

I reviewed Alex Cuadros's anti-Rousseauean portrait of how one indigenous group entered the illegal diamond trade (for better or worse).

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Wednesday released a notice urging Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks of traveling to the US and to exercise caution when traveling due to the recent deterioration of China-US economic and trade relations, as well as the domestic

Very excited to be INDEXED: If 'Communist Party, Japan' and 'corsets, in Robben Island' are your kind of thing... If President Lula and Thomas Mann are your kind of people... If Rio de Janeiro and Romania are your kind of places... Preorder! linktr.ee/oliverbasciano

Lovely, closely read, review for Outcast. Amazed and excited that it got ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from the Telegraph. The very final line makes me slightly teary, given the trust bestowed by the people who told their story. telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

Oliver Basciano is on tour with Outcast, his revelatory history of humanity through the lense of leprosy. Tickets are available now.

Out now & in stock: "History of Tuberculosis" John Green & "Outcast History of Leprosy" by Oliver Basciano. Really important reading.

On leprosy, and why it was regarded as a divine blessing in mediaeval times, for The Times and The Sunday Times: The past is indeed a foreign country... thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Nice thoughtful review by Pratinav Anil of Outcast for the Sunday Times.