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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in German History ; 36Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782385912
  • 9781782385929
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.95100943 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • RA644.V4 W35 2015
  • RA644.V4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.

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

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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.

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