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LEADER: 01537nam a22002658a 4500
001 2008025294
003 DLC
005 20080610083223.0
008 080605s2009 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008025294
020 $a9780520254473 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aa-ir---
050 00 $aDS266$b.S375 2009
082 00 $a955.05$222
100 1 $aSchayegh, Cyrus.
245 10 $aWho is knowledgeable, is strong :$bscience, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society /$cCyrus Schayegh.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniverity of California Press,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Part I : Science and the formation of the Iranian modern middle class, 1900s/1940s -- Historical frames : the nineteenth century and the post revolutionary advance of modern science, 1900/1920 -- Cultural and discursive dimensions -- The economic dimension -- Part II : Medicalizing modernity : patterns of interaction between bio-medical sciences and modernity in Iran, 1900 -- Dangers of modernity : neurology, psychiatry, and the effects of modern technology and economy -- Bio-power : hygiene, eugenics, genetics, and Iran's double demographic problem -- The self-reliant personality : psychology, pedagogy, and the problem of personal and national willpower -- Conclusion.
651 0 $aIran$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aIran$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aScience and civilization.