: science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950
/ Cyrus Schayegh.
Berkeley
: Univerity of California Press
, 2009.
x, 340 p. ;
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.