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Who is knowledgeable, is strong : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 /
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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2009.
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Table des matières:
- 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.