Who is knowledgeable, is strong : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 / Cyrus Schayegh.

Berkeley : Univerity of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

x, 340 pages ; 24 cm

"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.

Introduction -- Science and the formation of the Iranian modern middle class, 1900-1950 -- The historical background -- The cultural and discursive dimensions -- The economic dimensions -- Medicalizing modernity : interactions between the biomedical sciences and modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- The dangers of modernity : neurology, psychiatry, and the effects of modern technology and a modern economy -- Biopower : hygiene, eugenics, genetics, and Iran's double demographic problem -- The self-reliant personality : psychology, pedagogy, and the problem of willpower -- Conclusion.