Social, cultural, medical and health history 1750-1950, Denmark in European and context

• Infant care, infant feeding, breast feeding, infant death, infant mortality,
  obstetrics, midwifery, maternal mortality, still birth, infant welfare,
  child growth.  Concepts - knowledge - practices - results
• Health policy, social policy, poor laws, Nordic welfare states
• Risk management and insurance 1850-1950
• The patient experience 1797, 1897, 1997
• Obesity - fat - health concepts

Dr. phil., professor of European and Danish social and cultural history 1800-1950 in the Department of History / Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, since 2008.  Chair of the Board of Research in the Saxo Institute since 2007.  Before that associate professor of history, assistant professor of history, all at the University of Copenhagen.  Visiting fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford 2000.  2002-2008 member of the Danish Research Council of Humanities.  Research mainly in Danish history in a European context.  Important topics: history of public health, historical demography, infant mortality, infant feeding, birth attendance, risk and risk management, insurance, the patient experience.  Ongoing research: leading a research project on historical perspectives on obesity.