TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walther,Daniel J.
TI  - Sex and Control: Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914 
T2  - Monographs in German History
SN  - 9781782385912
AV  - RA644.V4 W35 2015
U1  - 616.95100943 23/eng
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Germany
KW  - Sexually transmitted diseases
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Colonial History
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385929
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