Professor
of Law.
Professor
Frankford earned his B.A. summa cum laude
at Tufts University in 1976 and his J.D. cum
laude at the University of Chicago Law School in 1979. A member of Phi Beta
Kappa and the Order of the Coif, he was a law clerk for Judge Irving I.
Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1979-1980, and
an associate specializing in antitrust, mass tort litigation, and regulation of
broadcasting and telecommunications with the Washington, D.C., firm of Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering from 1980 to 1984. An associate professor at the
University of Miami School of Law from 1984 to 1988, Professor Frankford also
has been a visiting associate professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law and Temple University School of Law. An expert in
health law and policy, his primary research
interests concern the
reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions
and community, and comparison of secular and religious bioethics regarding such
issues as the new genetics. He has also focused on the interactions between
health services research, health care politics and policy, and the institutions
of professions and professionalism. His works include studies of hospital
reimbursement, the regulation of fee splitting, the debates concerning
privatization and national health insurance, the ideology of professionalism,
the role of professionalism in medical education, the role of scientism and
economism in health policy, and issues of insurance coverage. He is currently
studying the manner in which medical education and practice can be connected
institutionally and linked to community institutions, and the manner in which
assessment and maintenance of professional competence can be allocated among
public and private authority, given the growth of new practice organizations
and advances in continuing education. He is also studying the manner in which
neo-Platonic and Jewish conceptions of "soul" influence bioethical positions.
Finally, with coauthor Sara Rosenbaum, he is working on a major revision of Law
and the American Health Care System, the leading book in the field. He also is Camden faculty director at the
Center for State Health Policy and associate editor of the Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law. In his other full-time job,
Professor Frankford is one of the top amateur cyclists in Pennsylvania in his
age group.
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