Sex and Control : Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914 (Monographs in German History) (Library Binding)

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...