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

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In this book, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how in early 20th-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural & economic capital, & how along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle modern problems like the increasing...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schayegh, Cyrus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Science and civilization.
Sciences et civilisation.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Intellectual life
Science and civilization
Social conditions
Mittelstand
Modernisierung
Sozialmedizin
Biomedizin
Iran > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Iran > Social conditions > 20th century.
Iran > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Iran
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Table of 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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