Medical Segregation

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

For over 100 years, Hawaii's Molokai Island served as a notorious leprosy colony. Thousands of people were exiled there, with the first arriving in 1866. John Tayman joins us with some of their stories of struggle and survival, as told in his new book The Colony.

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