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" Who is knowledgeable is strong : "
Cyrus Schayegh.
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BL
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878669
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Schayegh, Cyrus
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| Title & Author
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Who is knowledgeable is strong : : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society 1900-1950 /\ Cyrus Schayegh.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley [Calif.] ;London :: University of California Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 340 pages)
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0520943546
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: 9780520943544
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0520254473
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9780520254473
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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In this book, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how in early 20th-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural & economic capital, & how along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life.
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Science and civilization.
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Biomedizin
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HISTORY-- Middle East-- General.
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Intellectual life.
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Mittelstand
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Modernisierung
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Science and civilization.
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Social conditions.
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Sozialmedizin
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Biomedizin.
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Mittelstand.
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Modernisierung.
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Iran, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Iran, Social conditions, 20th century.
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Iran
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Iran.
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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955.05
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DS266.S375 2009
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EV 970rvk
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EV 970.rvk
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NQ 8820rvk
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NQ 8820.rvk
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