Who is knowledgeable, is strong
Subtitle: science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society
By: Cyrus Schayegh.
Publisher: Univerity of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520254473
Subjects: Science and civilization; Iran -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Iran -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I : Science and the formation of the Iranian modern middle class, 1900s/1940s; title: Historical frames : the nineteenth century and the post revolutionary advance of modern science, 1900/1920; title: Cultural and discursive dimensions; title: The economic dimension; title: Part II : Medicalizing modernity : patterns of interaction between bio-medical sciences and modernity in Iran, 1900; title: Dangers of modernity : neurology, psychiatry, and the effects of modern technology and economy; title: Bio-power : hygiene, eugenics, genetics, and Iran's double demographic problem; title: The self-reliant personality : psychology, pedagogy, and the problem of personal and national willpower; title: Conclusion.