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About Our Speaker
A professor of Bioethics at
Case
Western Reserve
University, Dr. Stephen Post also serves as the president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which conducts and funds research on altruism, compassion and service. Their research shows that when we give of ourselves, especially if we start young, everything from life satisfaction to self-realization and physical health is significantly improved. Mortality is delayed, Depression is reduced. Well-being and good fortune are increased.
Dr. Stephen Post's institute has funded over fifty studies — from the likes of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Chicago — to support scientific research on the life-enhancing benefits of caring.
He received his Ph.D. in philosophical and religious ethics from the
University of
Chicago (1983), where he was an elected university fellow, a fellow in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a co-preceptor in the Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Post's work focuses on three major areas:
1) Cognitive Disabilities and Dementia.
2) Family Caregivers and the Ethics of the Family
3) Altruism and Compassionate Love in the Context of Scientific Research,
Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, and the Professions
Post is Editor-in-Chief of the definitive Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, November 2003), and the author of more than 120 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals representing the sciences and humanities. He has also written seven books, four edited reference works, seven edited books, and two edited journals.
Included in his recent activities, in 2003 he was a member of the Commission on Children at Risk, Report to the Nation, which resulted in the book Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities. This study was funded by
Dartmouth
Medical
School, Institute for American Values, and the YMCA of the
USA.
Special Pricing Available for Dr. Post's Book! Ordering Instructions
To order copies of Why Good Things Happen to Good People, contact Sue Wolford to place your order. All copies will be picked up at the April 17 meeting and must be paid for at this meeting.
Hardback: Regular Price $23.95 VAN Member Price $14.50
Paperback: Regular Price $14.95 VAN Member Price $9.00
Deadline for ordering books is March 30. No exceptions.
To order, email swolford@columbuslibrary.org or call 614-849-1055
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