ABSTRACT
In 1930, the Losheng Sanatorium was established in Taipei County, Taiwan by the Japanese colonial regime to confine and treat patients with leprosy. More than a thousand people were eventually segregated there, stigmatized and deprived of basic human rights. During these decades of segregation, patients formed supportive networks and relationships and many of them made the sanatorium their home. In the 1950s, when a new treatment for leprosy (Hansen's disease) was discovered, patients were allowed to leave but many who had faced years of isolation and discrimination elected to stay.
