Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen

Primary fields of research

I work on the history of medicine, primarily in the 18^th, 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

In my PhD thesis I explored concepts and perceptions of fatness in Western European medicine between 1700 and 1900. As part of that, I also analysed how both historians and contemporary scientists rely on historical narratives when making sense of the notion of an epidemic of fat bodies in current societies. 

Teaching

• History of medicine and science (c. 1700-1900)
• History of disease concepts
• Taxonomies in the history of medicine
• History of the body and theories of corporeality
• History and theory of gender and sexuality
• Fat studies
• History of pediatrics in Denmark 

Knowledge of languages