Arthur W. FrankProfessor, Department of Sociology
University of Calgary
Dr. Frank received his undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University (High Honours, 1968), his M.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University (1975). He has taught at the University of Calgary since 1975.
Dr. Frank is on the editorial boards of Body & Society, Families, Systems & Health, Qualitative Health Research, and Auto-Biography. In 2002 he became book review editor of the British journal Health.
In 1998 Dr. Frank was William Evans Fellow in the Bioethics Research Programme, University of Otago, New Zealand. In July-August 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2000 he delivered the R.A. Goodling Lectures at Duke Divinity School. His many invited plenary addresses include Montreal's International Congress on the Care of the Terminally Ill, the Canadian Bioethics Society, the British Medical Journal's conference on Narrative Based Medicine, the 2003 "Vital Politics" conference at London School of Economics, in 2004 the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and in 2003 and 2005 the International Association for the Study of Pain. He has given workshops on narrative analysis in Canada, Korea, South Africa, Britain, and Australia.
His national research awards include a Killam Resident Fellowship and a three-year project, funded by Social Science and Research Council of Canada, titled "Survivorship as moral choice." He has been a participant in two working groups at The Hastings Center: "The Role of the Clinician-Patient Relationship in Cancer Care and Research" and "Surgically Shaping Children."
