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Reader in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Simon Cohn is a Reader in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies. More recently, he has started to think about the manner in which social relationships affect health care in tangible, material ways.
With a strong commitment to contemporary social theory, he is interested in how innovative social science might provide both critical insight and influence in aspects of contemporary biomedical practice.
His previous research focused on a range of qualitative techniques to investigate ideas of health amongst patients and medical professionals – particularly in relation to chronic conditions such as diabetes, ME/chronic fatigue, gulf war syndrome and the impact of neuroscience in psychiatry.
Dr Cohn is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Medical Committee; a lecturer of Magdalene College and a Bye-Fellow & Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge.