Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a London-based sociologist and writer and has authored several books. Dr. Kahn-Harris writes on a variety of topics for news media including Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Keith developed ME after glandular fever at university and considers himself "lucky" as he has relatively mild ME. "I work part-time in the sociology department of Goldsmiths, University of London, I have a wife and two children, I have travelled and experienced many of the things that people of my age have."

Academic positions

 * 2008-9: Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University of London.
 * 2007-8: Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College.
 * 2005: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, Campus Norrköping of Linköping University.
 * 2001-2: "Jerusalem Fellow" at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership in Jerusalem.

Notable articles
"For many years, psychiatrists dominated the research and treatment of ME. The treatment of first choice remains various forms of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which, applied crudely, can end up suggesting to patients that their illness is 'all in the mind'. The ME community is full of stories of patients being forced into exercise programmes that make their health worse, of benefits and insurance claimants accused of lying, of parents of children with ME accused of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Sophie Mirza, who became the first person to be classified as having died of ME in the UK in 2005, was even forcibly sectioned."
 * May 5, 2008, What it really means to be healthy

Online presence

 * Academia.edu
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