Three Generations of the Family of Alois Klar: Three Phases of Care for the Blind in Bohemia Three Generations of the Family of Alois Klar: Three Phases of Care for the Blind in Bohemia
2015
Abstract
In the introductory part of this essay, its author outlines research into care for the blind in the 19th century along the lines of the concepts of exclusion, isolation and diciplination (with subjects of exclusion etc., on the one hand, and levels of exclusion on the other), and points to the starting points of research into the phenomena of charity, philantropy and altruism. In the following section, he analyses three stages of care for the blind in Bohemia, roughly concurrent with three generations of the Klar family, with focus on gradually evolving forms of care and the consequent broadening of the scope of care provided by the (Klar) institute/s to include further age groups.