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Anne Roelsgaard Obling

Assistant professor
Anne Roelsgaard Obling

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 4.65
 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2844
Fax:+45 3815 2828
E-mail: ar.ioa@cbs.dk



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Thesis title: Emotion and emotion management in accelerated medical work
My research project explores how emotions are organized in contemporary accelerated cancer treatment regimes. The research addresses how socio-economic and institutional changes in the health care sector govern ‘emotional labour’ of doctors. It hereby contributes to a growing literature on emotions and organizations and emotions and health/medicine, trying to understand some of the problems concerning emotional injunctions to professional work and in changing organizational contexts.

Primary research areas

  • Health care
  • Sociology of emotions
  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Organisation theory
  • Post-Foucauldian studies of governmentality
  • Qualitative research in welfare institutions


Selected publications

Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2011) At skabe en engageret kræftlæge. In Järvinen, M. and Mik-Meyer, N. (eds.) At skabe en professional (forthcoming). Accepted for publication.  
Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2011) Kontrolleret empati i accelereret medicinsk arbejde. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund (forthcoming). Accepted for publication.
Mik-Meyer, N. and Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2011) The negotiation of a sick role: General practitioners’ classification of patients with medical unexplained symptoms. Sociology of Health and Illness (forthcoming). Accepted for publication. 
Mik-Meyer, N. and Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2011) Introduction to Special issue. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund (forthcoming). Accepted for publication.
Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2011) Ascribing affection to rational use in medical work. Journal of Health Organisation and Management. In review.
Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2010) Doctoring as a multifaceted practice – medicine beyond pure science and religion. The paper has been presented at the CHM (CBS) conference on ‘Health and Religion’ in September 2010
Roelsgaard Obling, A. (2010) Pakkede patientforløb og styringsambitioner i det danske sundhedsvæsen, In Kjaer, P. and Reff, A. (eds.) Patienten i centrum. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, pp. 101-129. 


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