03042nam 2200601Ia 450 991080813960332120200520144314.00-520-94354-610.1525/9780520943544(CKB)2670000000162547(EBL)1609004(SSID)ssj0000628873(PQKBManifestationID)11433168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628873(PQKBWorkID)10712064(PQKB)11469009(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056083(MiAaPQ)EBC1609004(DE-B1597)520088(OCoLC)808600995(DE-B1597)9780520943544(Au-PeEL)EBL1609004(CaPaEBR)ebr10675740(OCoLC)870245540(EXLCZ)99267000000016254720080605d2009 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWho is knowledgeable is strong science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 /Cyrus Schayegh1st ed.Berkeley Univerity of California Pressc20091 online resource (353 p.)"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p.0-520-25447-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1900-1950 -- Part 2. Medicalizing Modernity Interactions between the Biomedical Sciences and Modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- Conclusion -- Appendix First-Time Advertisements by Physicians in the Tehran Daily Ettelā'āt, 1927-1939 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- IndexIn Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns.Science and civilizationIranIntellectual life20th centuryIranSocial conditions20th centuryScience and civilization.955.05Schayegh Cyrus1654177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808139603321Who is knowledgeable is strong4005854UNINA