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Outcast

by Oliver Basciano

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Sanctuary, refuge and exile

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A journey across the hinterlands of the world to demystify the lives of those ostracised by leprosy, arguing that the image of medieval leprosy is a nineteenth-century myth invented to justify colonial, religious and economic exploitation of patients.

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