Sex and control : venereal disease, colonial physicians, and indigenous agency in German colonialism, 1884-1914 / Daniel J. Walther.

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...

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