臺灣早期身心障礙社會工作初探——以甘為霖的盲人工作為例

A Study of the Early Development of Social Work for the Disabled in Taiwan: William Campbell's Work for the Blind

臺灣身心障礙的社會福利已有很長一段歷史。從清代善會善堂的社會救濟，到西方傳教士與日治時期的福利工作，再到國民政府來臺之後的各種福利服務措施與立法。雖然早期沒有社會工作這項職稱，但過去他們所做的工作內容和今天的社工有許多相似之處。本文以十九世紀末西洋傳教士甘為霖的盲人工作為例，介紹他當時為盲人籌募經費、職業訓練，以及企圖改變整個社會來提升盲人地位的努力，藉以反思臺灣社會工作的起源及相關問題。

From charity associations and charity halls in the Qing Dynasty, the social services of Western missionaries and the Japanese colonial government, to welfare services and legislation after the Chinese Nationalist’s move to Taiwan, social welfare for the disabled has gone a number of transformationshistorically. Although there was no profession called social worker in the early times, much of the work done at that time was similar to what social workers are doing today. Thus, this study probes into William Campbell’s work for the blind in the 19th century to reexamine the origin and development of modern social work in Taiwan