Examining Genealogy as Engaged Critique

Genealogy as Immanent Critique: Working from the Inside FORTHCOMING IN ALISON

– only as persons of this conscience do we still feel ourselves related to the German rectitude and piety of millennia, even if as its most questionable and final descendents, we immoralists, we godless ones of today, indeed even in a certain sense as its heirs, as the executors of its innermost will …

Examining the effects of the SYMBIS pre- marriage training on engaged couples' communication beliefs

Engagement period and the first years of marriage are important stages in the family life cycle. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of pre- marriage training in the SYMBIS method on communication beliefs of the engaged couples. Participant were 20 couples referring to Shahid  Beheshti University counseling center, selected from all who referred from September to December 201...

Examining one's own : Reflexivity and critique in STS

[Fragments of a health work genealogy: genealogy as a research technique].

The article aims to explore the influence of health work in subjectification processes. The notion of history commonly used in health-related scientific output is based on an evolutionist and developmental logic. As a counterpoint, the genealogical approach used in this article and based on Michel Foucault highlights the notions of discontinuity, event, and the production of truth as tools to r...

The genealogy of genealogy of neurons

Two scenarios of neuronal evolution (monophyly and polyphyly) are discussed in the historical timeline starting from the 19th century. The recent genomic studies on Ctenophores re-initiated a broad interest in the hypotheses of independent origins of neurons. However, even earlier work on ctenophores suggested that their nervous systems are unique in many aspects of their organization and a pos...