Main description:

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.

Contents:

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