Paul Cohen
Department of Anthropology
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
I have been teaching at Macquarie since 1970. My undergraduate Honours degree in Anthropology was from Sydney University and my Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. I have had a long-standing in the region of Southeast Asia. I carried out field work for my PhD in the lowland of northern Thailand and continued research there on a range of agrarian issues (e.g. irrigation, farmers associations, land reform), the relationship between Buddhism and local-level politics and development, and primary health care. I have also done research on opium cultivation and trade among the highland peoples of this area. Since 1995 my research has concentrated on the lowland (Tai Lue) and highland (Akha) of Muang Sing in northwestern Laos on anthropological issues such as ethnicity, Buddhism and opium.
Research Interest
Medical Anthropology
Publications
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Cohen P, Miyazaki M, Socci ND, Hagge-Greenberg A, Liedtke W, Soukas AA, Sharma R, Hudgins LC, Ntambi JM, Friedman JM. Role for stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 in leptin-mediated weight loss. Science. 2002 Jul 12;297(5579):240-3.
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Weng J, Cohen P, Herniou M. Camera calibration with distortion models and accuracy evaluation. IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 1992 Oct 10;14(10):965-80.
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Weng J, Cohen P, Herniou M. Camera calibration with distortion models and accuracy evaluation. IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 1992 Oct 10;14(10):965-80.
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Cohen PR, Feigenbaum EA, editors. The handbook of artificial intelligence. Butterworth-Heinemann; 2014 Jun 5.
