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Abstract

Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. His publications include The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (Houghton Mifflin) and Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-narratology (University of Chicago Press). Dr. Frank has been honored with the Natalie Davis Spingarn Writer’s Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (Canada) and the Abbyann Lynch Medal for Bioethics from the Royal Society of Canada. He is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Hastings Center. The following is a redacted transcript of a telephone interview that took place on September 19, 2013.

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