Daniel J. Walther

Sex and Control

Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9781782385912
• ISBN-10: 1782385916
• Artikelnr.: 42548915

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Walther is the Gerald R. Kleinfeld Distinguished Professor of German History at Wartburg College, where he teaches modern European and world history.  He is the author of Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia (Ohio UP, 2002) and several articles on the German experience in Namibia and on German colonialism.  He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Max Kade Fellow, a DAAD Faculty Researcher, and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Doctors, Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Germany
Part I: Male Sexuality and Prostitution in the Overseas Territories
Chapter 2. Male Colonial Sexuality
Chapter 3. Prostitution in Germany's Colonies
Part II: Venereal Diseases in the Colonial Context
Chapter 4. The Threat of VD
Chapter 5. Assessing the Threat Statistically
Chapter 6. Racial Categories, VD and the Colonial Order
Part III: Fighting Venereal Diseases 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