LEADER 03042nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910808139603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-94354-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520943544 035 $a(CKB)2670000000162547 035 $a(EBL)1609004 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000628873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10712064 035 $a(PQKB)11469009 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056083 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1609004 035 $a(DE-B1597)520088 035 $a(OCoLC)808600995 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520943544 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1609004 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675740 035 $a(OCoLC)870245540 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000162547 100 $a20080605d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWho is knowledgeable is strong $escience, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 /$fCyrus Schayegh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniverity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $a"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p. 311 $a0-520-25447-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart 1. Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1900-1950 -- $tPart 2. Medicalizing Modernity Interactions between the Biomedical Sciences and Modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix First-Time Advertisements by Physicians in the Tehran Daily Ettel?'?t, 1927-1939 -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aScience and civilization 607 $aIran$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aIran$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aScience and civilization. 676 $a955.05 700 $aSchayegh$b Cyrus$01654177 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808139603321 996 $aWho is knowledgeable is strong$94005854 997 $aUNINA