Sex and Control : : Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914 / / Daniel J. Walther.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Walther, Daniel J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in German History ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)

In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy population. However, the Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Asians they administered to were not passive recipients of these strategies. Rather, their behavior strongly influenced the efficacy and nature of these public health measures. While an apparent degree of compliance was achieved, over time physicians increasingly relied on disciplinary measures beyond what was possible in Germany in order to enforce their policies. Ultimately, through their discourses and actions they contributed to the justification for and the maintenance of German colonialism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Male Sexuality and Prostitution in the Overseas Territories -- Chapter 1 DOCTORS, PROSTITUTION, AND VENEREAL DISEASE IN GERMANY -- Chapter 2 MALE COLONIAL SEXUALITY -- Chapter 3 PROSTITUTION IN GERMANY’S COLONIES -- PART II Venereal Disease in the Colonial Context -- Chapter 4 THE THREAT OF VENEREAL DISEASE -- Chapter 5 ASSESSING THE THREAT STATISTICALLY -- Chapter 6 RACIAL CATEGORIES, VENEREAL DISEASE, AND THE COLONIAL ORDER -- PART III Fighting Venereal Disease in the Colonies -- Chapter 7 PREVENTATIVE MEASURES -- Chapter 8 DISCIPLINING THE BODY -- Chapter 9 TREATING THE BODY -- Chapter 10 ASSESSING THE SURVEILLANCE -- Chapter 11 PERCEIVED ONGOING CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX