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

  • Schayegh, Cyrus.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

x, 340 pages ; 24 cm

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Notes

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

Bibliographic information

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

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    AB.282.AA9
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  • 9780520254473
  • 0520254473