Who is knowledgeable is strong : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 / Cyrus Schayegh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schayegh, Cyrus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and civilization.

Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.

Iran.

Iran--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Univerity of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 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.

Contents:

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

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.

ISBN:

9780520943544

0520943546

OCLC:

808600995