Anne Løkke
Biographic Data
| ID | 175916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Løkke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Løkke |
| SIGNATURE | LØKKE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Birth Weight and Prematurity in Copenhagen 1927. Health at Birth Explored in Midwife Records From Home Births and Births at the Royal Maternity Hospital
This study examines two key indicators on perinatal health — birth weight and prematurity — based on 1,151 home births in Copenhagen in 1927, attended by trained, examined, authorized midwives, who had to call in a physician to assist in cases of complicated births. This is a 17% sample of all home births in the city, which comprises two thirds of all births in Copenhagen for that year. To compare, we also examine 398 hospital births, equal to a …
Cause-Specific Infant Mortality in Copenhagen 1861–1911 Explored Using Individual-Level Data
This study explores cause-specific infant mortality in Copenhagen between 1861 and 1911, using newly available individual-level data from The Copenhagen Burial Register, as part of a larger comparative project within the SHiP network (Studying the history of Health in Port Cities). The aim is to determine the dominant cause of death patterns for infants and to explore how the ICD10h coding system performs with the Danish individual level-historic…
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates
The relationship between gender and mortality in nineteenth-century Europe has been highly debated. In particular, historians disagree about the manner and degree to which gender discrimination affected the mortality risk of the female population. This article contributes by examining the evidence of gendered mortality differences among children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. It makes use of both child sex ratios and mortality rat…
Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases
Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into 'data' may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical historical analysis. Based on a pilot study of all 11,100 deaths registered in Copenhagen in 1880-1881, we identify, analyse and discuss the challenges of…
The stillbirth sex ratio as a marker of population health among live‐born males in Denmark, 1835‐1923
OBJECTIVES: We know little about whether an elevated stillbirth sex ratio (ratio of male to female stillbirths) gauges stronger selection in utero against frail male gestations and therefore predicts greater male infant survival. An alternative scenario could involve a "low endowment" case in which pregnancy cohorts show both excess male stillbirths and elevated mortality risk among male live births. We exploit the longest sex-specific stillbirth…
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie
This is a book review turned research paper. The aim is to estimate the differences in the maternal mortality rate (MMR) between untrained midwives, expert midwives, and the famous obstetrician Dr Smellie in eighteenth-century Britain. The paper shows that the birth attendance practices of the expert midwife Mrs Stone and of Dr Smellie were very similar, though Stone used her hands whereas Smellie used forceps. Both applied the same invasive tech…
Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat
Journal Article Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity Get access Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 261. $29.50/£20.50. ISBN 978 0 231 15976 0. Anne Løkke Anne Løkke University of Copenhagen [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Sc…
The antibiotic transformation of Danish obstetrics. The hidden links between the decline in perinatal mortality and maternal mortality in the mid-twentieth century
Le grand déclin international de la mortalité périnatale à la fin des années 1930 et au début des années 1940 n’a jusqu’à présent pas fait l’objet d’une complète explication. Cette étude démontre qu’au Danemark, le recours aux antibiotiques a joué un rôle clé dans ce déclin à travers deux processus indirects. Le premier repose sur le traitement des infections non-obstétricales qui a accéléré, du point de vue de la condition sanitaire féminine, un…
The ‘Antiseptic’ Transformation of Danish Midwives, 1860–1920
In 1883 the physician Leopold Meyer (1852-1918) delivered a lecture to the Copenhagen Medical Society (Det medicinske Selskab i København) entitled ‘On expanding the physician’s role in birth attendance’.1 Meyer proposed dispensing with midwives in larger towns and cities, replacing them with doctors assisted by nurses. Meyer had reached the conclusion that midwives should be removed during a recently concluded study trip to Germany, France, Engl…
The Scandinavian Researchers' Network for the Study of the History of Childhood
(1993). The Scandinavian Researchers' Network for the Study of the History of Childhood. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 1993, First ever issue of the European Review of History, pp. 181-182
Dietary Self-Selection and Meal Patterns of Obese and Lean Zucker Rats
Following two weeks of baseline measures on laboratory chow, young obese and lean male Zucker rats were given access to separate macronutrients for 18 weeks. First, the rats were given access to soybean meal, dextrinized starch, and lard for eight weeks. Daily caloric intake of obese rats was greater on laboratory chow than that of lean rats and remained so following the switch to the self-selection diet. While obese and lean rats consumed simila…
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates
The relationship between gender and mortality in nineteenth-century Europe has been highly debated. In particular, historians disagree about the manner and degree to which gender discrimination affected the mortality risk of the female population. This article contributes by examining the evidence of gendered mortality differences among children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. It makes use of both child sex ratios and mortality rat…
Dietary Self-Selection and Meal Patterns of Obese and Lean Zucker Rats
Following two weeks of baseline measures on laboratory chow, young obese and lean male Zucker rats were given access to separate macronutrients for 18 weeks. First, the rats were given access to soybean meal, dextrinized starch, and lard for eight weeks. Daily caloric intake of obese rats was greater on laboratory chow than that of lean rats and remained so following the switch to the self-selection diet. While obese and lean rats consumed simila…
Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases
Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into 'data' may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical historical analysis. Based on a pilot study of all 11,100 deaths registered in Copenhagen in 1880-1881, we identify, analyse and discuss the challenges of…
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie
This is a book review turned research paper. The aim is to estimate the differences in the maternal mortality rate (MMR) between untrained midwives, expert midwives, and the famous obstetrician Dr Smellie in eighteenth-century Britain. The paper shows that the birth attendance practices of the expert midwife Mrs Stone and of Dr Smellie were very similar, though Stone used her hands whereas Smellie used forceps. Both applied the same invasive tech…
Dietary Self-Selection and Meal Patterns of Obese and Lean Zucker Rats
Following two weeks of baseline measures on laboratory chow, young obese and lean male Zucker rats were given access to separate macronutrients for 18 weeks. First, the rats were given access to soybean meal, dextrinized starch, and lard for eight weeks. Daily caloric intake of obese rats was greater on laboratory chow than that of lean rats and remained so following the switch to the self-selection diet. While obese and lean rats consumed simila…
The Scandinavian Researchers' Network for the Study of the History of Childhood
(1993). The Scandinavian Researchers' Network for the Study of the History of Childhood. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 1993, First ever issue of the European Review of History, pp. 181-182
The ‘Antiseptic’ Transformation of Danish Midwives, 1860–1920
In 1883 the physician Leopold Meyer (1852-1918) delivered a lecture to the Copenhagen Medical Society (Det medicinske Selskab i København) entitled ‘On expanding the physician’s role in birth attendance’.1 Meyer proposed dispensing with midwives in larger towns and cities, replacing them with doctors assisted by nurses. Meyer had reached the conclusion that midwives should be removed during a recently concluded study trip to Germany, France, Engl…
The antibiotic transformation of Danish obstetrics. The hidden links between the decline in perinatal mortality and maternal mortality in the mid-twentieth century
Le grand déclin international de la mortalité périnatale à la fin des années 1930 et au début des années 1940 n’a jusqu’à présent pas fait l’objet d’une complète explication. Cette étude démontre qu’au Danemark, le recours aux antibiotiques a joué un rôle clé dans ce déclin à travers deux processus indirects. Le premier repose sur le traitement des infections non-obstétricales qui a accéléré, du point de vue de la condition sanitaire féminine, un…
Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat
Journal Article Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity Get access Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu), The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 261. $29.50/£20.50. ISBN 978 0 231 15976 0. Anne Løkke Anne Løkke University of Copenhagen [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Sc…
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie
This is a book review turned research paper. The aim is to estimate the differences in the maternal mortality rate (MMR) between untrained midwives, expert midwives, and the famous obstetrician Dr Smellie in eighteenth-century Britain. The paper shows that the birth attendance practices of the expert midwife Mrs Stone and of Dr Smellie were very similar, though Stone used her hands whereas Smellie used forceps. Both applied the same invasive tech…
The stillbirth sex ratio as a marker of population health among live‐born males in Denmark, 1835‐1923
OBJECTIVES: We know little about whether an elevated stillbirth sex ratio (ratio of male to female stillbirths) gauges stronger selection in utero against frail male gestations and therefore predicts greater male infant survival. An alternative scenario could involve a "low endowment" case in which pregnancy cohorts show both excess male stillbirths and elevated mortality risk among male live births. We exploit the longest sex-specific stillbirth…
Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases
Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into 'data' may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical historical analysis. Based on a pilot study of all 11,100 deaths registered in Copenhagen in 1880-1881, we identify, analyse and discuss the challenges of…
Gendered mortality of children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. Exploring patterns of sex ratios and mortality rates
The relationship between gender and mortality in nineteenth-century Europe has been highly debated. In particular, historians disagree about the manner and degree to which gender discrimination affected the mortality risk of the female population. This article contributes by examining the evidence of gendered mortality differences among children and adolescents in nineteenth-century Denmark. It makes use of both child sex ratios and mortality rat…
Cause-Specific Infant Mortality in Copenhagen 1861–1911 Explored Using Individual-Level Data
This study explores cause-specific infant mortality in Copenhagen between 1861 and 1911, using newly available individual-level data from The Copenhagen Burial Register, as part of a larger comparative project within the SHiP network (Studying the history of Health in Port Cities). The aim is to determine the dominant cause of death patterns for infants and to explore how the ICD10h coding system performs with the Danish individual level-historic…
Birth Weight and Prematurity in Copenhagen 1927. Health at Birth Explored in Midwife Records From Home Births and Births at the Royal Maternity Hospital
This study examines two key indicators on perinatal health — birth weight and prematurity — based on 1,151 home births in Copenhagen in 1927, attended by trained, examined, authorized midwives, who had to call in a physician to assist in cases of complicated births. This is a 17% sample of all home births in the city, which comprises two thirds of all births in Copenhagen for that year. To compare, we also examine 398 hospital births, equal to a …
Medicine (8 works) · Demography (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Danish (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · History (3 works) · Obstetrics (3 works) · Population (3 works)