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PhD Religion and Society University of Chicago
Bachelors Philosophy Denison University

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According to Wikipedia, Stephen Garrard Post has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation , which focuses on virtue and public life. He is a researcher, opinion leader, medical school professor, and best-selling author who has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Fordham University-Marymount, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Stony Brook University School of Medicine . He is widely known for his research on the ways in which giving can enhance the health and happiness of the giver, how empathy and compassionate care contribute to patient outcomes, ethical issues in caring for people with dementia, medical professionalism and the virtues, and positive psychology in relation to health and well-being. Post is an elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He was selected nationally as the Public Member of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Composite Committee , and was reappointed for outstanding contributions.

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Altruism, happiness, and health: it’s good to be good (2005) (644)
Physicians and Patient Spirituality: Professional Boundaries, Competency, and Ethics (2000) (428)
The clinical introduction of genetic testing for Alzheimer disease. An ethical perspective. (1997) (203)
Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (2002) (193)
Altruism and health: Perspectives from empirical research. (2007) (186)
Oncology and hope. (1995) (134)
Fairhill Guidelines on Ethics of the Care of People With Alzheimer's Disease: A Clinical Summary * (1995) (134)
Who seeks genetic susceptibility testing for Alzheimer’s disease? Findings from a multisite, randomized clinical trial (2004) (112)
The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (2000) (103)
Biogerontology, "anti-aging medicine," and the challenges of human enhancement. (2003) (96)
The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease (1995) (90)
Reasons for Seeking Genetic Susceptibility Testing Among First‐Degree Relatives of People With Alzheimer Disease (2003) (89)
The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal (2004) (62)
Tube feeding and advanced progressive dementia. (2001) (57)
Routine, empathic and compassionate patient care: definitions, development, obstacles, education and beneficiaries. (2014) (55)
Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion, and Service (2003) (55)
Antiaging Research and the Need for Public Dialogue (2003) (54)
Guidelines for Addressing Ethical and Legal Issues in Alzheimer Disease Research: A Position Paper (1994) (53)
Alzheimer Disease and the "Then" Self (1995) (53)
Religious content in the DSM-III-R glossary of technical terms. (1993) (52)
Emerging Antidementia Drugs: A Preliminary Ethical View (1998) (52)
Alcoholics Anonymous-Related Helping and the Helper Therapy Principle (2011) (52)
The tradition of agape. (2002) (51)
The Heart of Religion: Spiritual Empowerment, Benevolence, and the Experience of God's Love (2012) (48)
Encyclopedia of bioethics (2004) (48)
Issues in the economic evaluation of treatment for dementia. Position paper from the International Working Group on Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines. (1997) (46)
Too old for health care? : controversies in medicine, law, economics, and ethics (1991) (43)
Addiction and “Generation Me”: Narcissistic and Prosocial Behaviors of Adolescents with Substance Dependency Disorder in Comparison to Normative Adolescents (2012) (43)
Key issues in the ethics of dementia care. (2000) (40)
Respectare: moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful (2005) (38)
Dementia and aging : ethics, values, and policy choices (1992) (36)
Alone on the Inside: The Impact of Social Isolation and Helping Others on AOD Use and Criminal Activity (2015) (35)
A Focus Group on Cognition-Enhancing Medications in Alzheimer Disease: Disparities Between Professionals and Consumers (2001) (33)
Genetics, Ethics, and Alzheimer Disease (1994) (33)
DSM-III-R and religion. (1992) (32)
Helping Others and Long-term Sobriety: Who Should I Help to Stay Sober? (2009) (31)
The echo of Nuremberg: Nazi data and ethics. (1991) (31)
The Fear of Forgetfulness: A Grassroots Approach to an Ethics of Alzheimer’s Disease (1998) (29)
Before it is too late: professional responsibilities in late-onset Alzheimer’s research and pre-symptomatic prediction (2014) (28)
Bodily Integrity (2003) (27)
Breaking the diagnosis of dementia (2004) (25)
Baby K: Medical Futility and the Free Exercise of Religion (1995) (25)
Developing “a Way of Being”: Deliberate Approaches to Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education (2019) (25)
Physicians and patients' spirituality. (2009) (24)
Altruism & Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy & Religion in Dialogue (2002) (24)
Compassionate care enhancement: benefits and outcomes (2011) (24)
Love and Service in Adolescent Addiction Recovery (2016) (23)
Future scenarios for the prevention and delay of Alzheimer disease onset in high-risk groups. An ethical perspective. (1999) (23)
Establishing an appropriate ethical framework: the moral conversation around the goal of prolongevity. (2004) (22)
Confusion in the Determination of Death: Distinguishing Philosophy from Physiology (2015) (22)
Assessing youth participation in AA-related helping: validity of the Service to Others in Sobriety (SOS) questionnaire in an adolescent sample. (2013) (21)
On Not Jumping the Gun: Ethical Aspects of APOE Gene Testing for Alzheimer's Disease a (1996) (21)
Health care rationing? (1992) (21)
Psychiatry and Religion: The Convergence of Mind and Spirit (2001) (21)
Discourse Ethics: Research, Dementia, and Communication (1994) (21)
Medication use to treat memory loss in dementia (2006) (20)
It’s good to be good: 2011 fifth annual scientific report on health, happiness and helping others (2011) (20)
The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice (1996) (18)
Frequency of private spiritual activity and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative. (2013) (18)
Psychiatry and ethics: The problematics of respect for religious meanings (1993) (18)
Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease, Ethical and Clinical Issues, Edited by S. G. Post and P. J. Whitehouse (2000) (18)
Inquiries in Bioethics (1993) (17)
From Defiance to Reliance: Spiritual Virtue as a Pathway Towards Desistence, Humility, and Recovery Among Juvenile Offenders (2017) (17)
Slowing the progression of Alzheimer disease: ethical issues. (1997) (17)
Relationship-centred care: antidote, guidepost or blind alley? The epistemology of 21st century health care. (2014) (17)
Close Relationships and Health Through the Lens of Selective Investment Theory (2007) (17)
Huntington's disease: prenatal screening for late onset disease. (1992) (17)
Physician-assisted suicide: Toward a comprehensive understanding (1995) (17)
A Theory of Agape: On the Meaning of Christian Love (1990) (15)
Alzheimer's disease. Ethics and the progression of dementia. (1994) (15)
Preventing schizophrenia and Alzheimer disease: comparative ethics (2001) (14)
Brief Report: Stony Brook Guidelines on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families (2013) (14)
Selective abortion for familial Alzheimer disease? (1992) (14)
Comments on research in the social sciences pertaining to Alzheimer's disease: A more humble approach (2001) (14)
Physician‐Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer's Disease (1997) (14)
Hope in caring for the deeply forgetful: enduring selfhood and being open to surprises. (2013) (14)
Severely Demented Elderly People A Case Against Senicide (1990) (13)
Full-Spectrum Proxy Consent for Research Participation When Persons With Alzheimer Disease Lose Decisional Capacities: Research Ethics and the Common Good (2003) (13)
Commentary on “Sexuality and Intimacy in the Nursing Home” (2000) (12)
DSM-III-R and religion. (1990) (12)
History, infanticide, and imperiled newborns. (1988) (12)
Ethics, religion, and mental health (1998) (12)
Biological markers and truth-telling. (1992) (11)
Spirituality, religion, and Alzheimer's disease. (1998) (11)
Filial Morality in an Aging Society (1989) (11)
Dispositional optimism and terminal decline in global quality of life. (2015) (10)
Social and Ethical Issues (2008) (10)
Research on Altruism & Love: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Studies in Psychology, Sociology, Evolutionary Biology, and Theology (2003) (10)
Selective abortion and gene therapy: reflections on human limits. (1991) (10)
Dementia in Our Midst: The Moral Community (1995) (9)
Managed care, cost control, and the common good. (2000) (9)
Women and Elderly Parents: Moral Controversy in an Aging Society (1990) (9)
Medical students in a time of HIV: education and the duty to treat (1995) (8)
Humility and 12-Step Recovery: A Prolegomenon for the Empirical Investigation of a Cardinal Virtue in Alcoholics Anonymous (2016) (8)
Expanding The Rubric of “Patient-Centered Care” (PCC) to “Patient and Professional Centered Care” (PPCC) to Enhance Provider Well-Being (2017) (8)
A Grassroots Community Dialogue on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families: The Stony Brook Guidelines (2017) (7)
Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death––a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions (2022) (7)
My conscience, your money. (1995) (7)
The Inadequacy of Selflessness: God's Suffering and the Theory of Love (1988) (7)
“Music & Memory” and improved swallowing in advanced dementia (2020) (7)
Alzheimer disease and physician-assisted suicide. (1993) (7)
Suffering and the Beneficent Community (1992) (7)
Ethical issues in Alzheimer disease: the experience of a national Alzheimer society task force. (1999) (7)
Adolescents and AIDS Prevention (1995) (7)
Positive Criminology and Rethinking the Response to Adolescent Addiction: Evidence on the Role of Social Support, Religiosity, and Service to Others. (2016) (7)
Editor's Note: In this series of op-ed articles, three authors explore a range of perspectives on the question of whether physicians should engage patients on the topic of spirituality. Ethical Concerns and Boundaries in Spirituality and Health (2009) (7)
Humanism, posthumanism, and compassionate love (2010) (6)
International Commentaries on “Guidelines for Addressing Ethical and Legal Issues in Alzheimer Disease Research” (1995) (6)
Baboon livers and the human good. (1993) (6)
Quality of Life and Quality of Lives in Dementia Care (2001) (6)
Laser Technology for Defense and Security VIII (2009) (6)
Euthanasia, Senicide, and the Aging Society (1991) (6)
Guidelines for addressing ethical and legal issues in Alzheimer disease research: a position paper. National Institute on Aging. (1994) (6)
Psychological Traits, Heart Rate Variability, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Healthy Aging Women—The Women's Health Initiative (2019) (6)
Mentally disabled and mentally ill persons. Research issues (2004) (5)
The Emergence of Species Impartiality: A Medical Critique of Biocentrism (2015) (5)
THE LANGUAGE GAME: WE ARE PHYSICIANS, NOT PROVIDERS. (2021) (5)
What Children Owe Parents: Ethics in an Aging Society (1989) (5)
Marriage, health, and the professions (2002) (5)
Benevolent unlimited love, happiness, and health: Rx "do unto others". (2005) (5)
Ethical issues in dementia drug development. Position paper from the International Working Group on Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines. (1997) (5)
Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders: Integrative, International, Interdisciplinary (1992) (5)
Psychiatry, Religious Conversion, and Medical Ethics (1991) (5)
Nazi Data and the Rights of Jews (1988) (4)
Case Study: My Conscience, Your Money (1995) (4)
Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression (2003) (4)
Spheres of love : towards a new ethics of the family (1994) (4)
Beyond adversity: Physician and patient as friends? (1994) (4)
Analogy, evaluation, and moral disagreement (1995) (4)
Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease-Reply (1997) (4)
Anti-Aging Medicine and Science: An Arena of Conflict and Profound Societal Implications (2003) (4)
Alzheimer disease ethics: a continuing area of public interest. (1999) (4)
Reports from the Holocaust: the making of an AIDS activist (1995) (4)
Transposing the Adverse Social Dynamics of Adolescent Substance Use Disorders Into More Effective Treatment and Clinician Resilience (2018) (3)
Global quality of life modifies terminal change in physical functioning among older adult women. (2015) (3)
AIDS and the medical student: the risk of contagion and the duty to treat. (1992) (3)
Ethical Commentary: Genetic Testing for Alzheimer's Disease (1994) (3)
Bioethics for students : how do we know what's right? : issues in medicine, animal rights, and the environment (1999) (3)
It's good to be good: science says it's so. Research demonstrates that people who help others usually have healthier, happier lives. (2009) (3)
American culture and euthanasia. The changing definition of a "good death". (1991) (3)
The Molko Case: Will Freedom Prevail? (1989) (3)
Alcoholics Anonymous: New Directions in Research on Spirituality and Recovery (2014) (3)
Implantable hormonal contraceptives: emerging controversy. (1994) (3)
Five sources of hope for the deeply forgetful: Dementia in the twenty-first century (2011) (3)
Behavior control and Alzheimer disease in perspective. (1992) (3)
Infanticide and Geronticide (1990) (3)
Autonomy in Long-Term Care: How Cherished a Value? (1994) (3)
Dementia and the life-prolonging technologies used: an ethical question. (1992) (3)
Ethical Issues: Perspective 2: The Fundamental Role of Personhood (2013) (2)
Introduction (to 6 articles and a position paper on ethical and legal issues in Alzheimer disease research) (1994) (2)
Extraordinary litmus tests. (2004) (2)
Front Matter: Volume 8039 (2011) (2)
How Shall the Aged Die (1993) (2)
The Moral Challenge of Children at Risk: Protective Policies and Pediatrics (1997) (2)
An Ethical Context For Presymptomatic Testing in Alzheimer’s Disease (2000) (2)
Front Matter: Volume 8733 (2013) (2)
Ethical and legal issues in Alzheimer disease research. Introduction. (1994) (2)
Conclusion to Part V (2002) (2)
Reflections on Adoption Ethics (1996) (2)
The IRB, ethics, and the objective study of religion in health. (1995) (2)
You’re Not Alone: Sharing of Anonymous Narratives to Destigmatize Mental Illness in Medical Students and Faculty (2019) (2)
The Judeo-Christian case against human cloning. (1997) (2)
Happiness, Health and Altruism (2008) (2)
In defense of myoblast transplantation research in preteens with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (2010) (2)
‘Is Grandma Still There?’ A Pastoral and Ethical Reflection on the Soul and Continuing Self-identity in Deeply Forgetful People (2016) (2)
The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals (2009) (2)
An ethical perspective on caregiving in the family (1988) (1)
Motivation to Impact: Medical Student Volunteerism in the COVID 19 Pandemic (2022) (1)
Recent works on reproductive technology. (1989) (1)
Stumbling on Joy (2007) (1)
Justice, community dialogue, and health care. (1992) (1)
Alzheimer Testing at Silver Years (1998) (1)
International Efforts to Improve Alzheimer Disease Treatment (1995) (1)
Family ethics in caring for newborns with impairments. (1987) (1)
How giving help to others can help young people deal with their own addiction. (2016) (1)
Parental Duties toward Severely Impaired Infants: An Ethical Analysis (1987) (1)
To care but never to prolong? (1992) (1)
Front Matter: Volume 7686 (2010) (1)
The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research (2022) (1)
Ethics of Behavior Control: A Panel Discussion (1994) (1)
Why the tolerance of potential harms? Research ethics in Alzheimer disease. (1999) (1)
The Ontological Generality: Recovery in Triadic Community with a Higher Power, Neighbor, and Self (2014) (1)
Fetal tissue transplant: the right to question progress. (1991) (1)
Ethics and Long-Term Care: The Continuing Discussion (1996) (1)
The moral lessons of Covid-19: A call for renewal. (2020) (1)
Values in geriatric psychiatry (1992) (1)
Grass-roots reflections on substance abuse. A community dialogue approach. (1992) (1)
Love, Religion, and Sexual Revolution (1992) (1)
Brief Report: Stony Brook Guidelines on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families (2012) (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
Introduction (1975) (0)
The Ethics Of Research With Subjects Who Have Dementia (2006) (0)
Conclusion to Part I (2002) (0)
Dementia care at the end of life: empirical research and international collaboration. (1996) (0)
Growing Old: Meaning, Religion, and Wisdom (1990) (0)
Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease [2] (multiple letters) (1997) (0)
Biomedical Ethics And The Elderly: An Emerging Focus (1989) (0)
Front Matter: Volume 7325 (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Perspectives on Dementia (1994) (0)
Death and Dying: A Reader (2004) (0)
A postmortem on Initiative 119. (1992) (0)
Introduction to Part V (2002) (0)
In Response to Margaret M. Gullette (2014) (0)
GENETIC TESTING FOR ALZHEIMER DISEASE. AUTHORS' REPLY (1997) (0)
Alzheimer's Ethical Questions and Answers from Diagnosis to Dying. (2019) (0)
Dementia Care Ethics (2001) (0)
The Interdependence of Generations (1991) (0)
America and death: reflections on euthanasia. (1992) (0)
AGEING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION Daniel Callahan, Rudd H. J. ter Meulen and Eva Topkinkova (eds): A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges. Georgetown University Press, Washington, 1995, 175 pp. ISBN 0 878 40576 3. (1997) (0)
Comments on research in the social sciences pertaining to Alzheimer's disease: a more humble approach. (2001) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
CONDITIONAL AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (1991) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
JUSTICE, REDISTRIBUTION, AND THE FAMILY (1990) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Advanced Progressive Dementia (2016) (0)
Concluding Summary (2022) (0)
The Moral Meaning of Relinquishing an Infant: Reflections on Adoption (1992) (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
Alzheimer's Disease Research (1992) (0)
Genetics and Human Self-Understanding: The Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2004) (0)
A Day Seven Reflection Circle to Enhance Resilience in Residents after a Difficult Patient Loss (2019) (0)
Book Review:Theory and Practice in Medical Ethics Glenn C. Graber, David C. Thomasma (1991) (0)
The Long-Lived Society: An Argument in Defense of the Deceleration of Aging as an Alternative to the Burdens of an Aging Society (2004) (0)
The Reply. (2022) (0)
The Potential Impact of Morality on Medical Student Global Health Participation (2019) (0)
Book Reviews : Priorities and Christian Ethics, by Garth L. Hallett. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 202 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-521-62351-0 (1999) (0)
Six Sources of Altruism: Springs of Morality and Solidarity (2014) (0)
Book Review: The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (1995) (0)
Human Partners and Godly Love relationships forming fluid networks (2012) (0)
Compassionate Care (2011) (0)
The Structure of Love. Alan Soble (1992) (0)
Six Sources of Altruism (2014) (0)
IMPLANTABLE HORMONAL CONTRACEPTIVES : EMERING CONTROVERSY. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1995) (0)
Book Review:The General Will before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic Patrick Riley (1988) (0)
Why Should We Care about Godly Love (2012) (0)
A Grassroots Community Dialogue on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families: The Stony Brook Guidelines (2017) (0)
The Breath of Prayer energizing godly love (2012) (0)
Benevolence in the Eyes of the Beholder effects of social filters (2012) (0)
Commentary 2: Two Roads Diverge: Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer’s Disease for a Research Participant (2019) (0)
Christian love and self-denial: An historical and normative study of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins, and American theological ethics (1987) (0)
Abstract 13096: Mechanisms Underlying Associations Between Optimism, Hostility, and Cardiovascular Risk (2016) (0)
Partnering with the Divine spiritual transformation and godly love (2012) (0)
A Framework to Guide Medical Students’ Role in COVID-19: The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Crystallization of Professional Identity Formation (2021) (0)
Expanding The Rubric of “Patient-Centered Care” (PCC) to “Patient and Professional Centered Care” (PPCC) to Enhance Provider Well-Being (2017) (0)
Author ' s personal copy Humanism , posthumanism , and compassionate love (2010) (0)
Joining Humanity and Science: Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in Medical Education (2022) (0)
Introducing the Exemplars of Godly Love (2012) (0)
Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics; By Lisa Sowle Cahill Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 327 pp. $49.95, $16.95 (pb) (1997) (0)
Inpatient Care Team Views on Child Life Services: A Scoping Review. (2022) (0)
Frequency of private spiritual activity and cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women : the Women ’ s Health Initiative Short title : Spirituality and cardiovascular risk in women (2017) (0)
The Cup of Suffering and Joy divine love and healing (2012) (0)
Book Review:Powers That Make Us Human: The Foundations of Medical Ethics Kenneth Vaux (1987) (0)
Pediatric Schwartz Rounds: Influencing Provider Insights and Emotional Connectedness. (2022) (0)
Religion, Culture, and Family (1999) (0)
An Innovative Program Using Magic to Provide Early Clinical Experiences for Preclinical Medical Students: Goals, Experiences, and Results of the MagicAid Program (2022) (0)
Diversities in the Experience and Expression of Godly Love (2012) (0)
We should address residential relocation to improve patient care (2020) (0)
History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Biology (2010) (0)

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