Damien Keown (born 1951) is a British academic, bioethicist, and authority on Buddhist bioethics.[1][2] He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Keown earned a B.A. in religious studies from the University of Lancaster in 1977 and a D.Phil. from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 1986.[1]
Keown has published research examining Buddhism and the ethics of suicide,[3] the issue of brain death as it relates to organ donation,[4] and the ethical relationship between Buddhism and ecology.[5] Keown's published works include The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (1992) and Buddhism & Bioethics (1995). He has also served as editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism and produced two books in Oxford University's Very Short Introduction series, one on Buddhism and the other on Buddhist ethics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
- ^ a b "Professor Emeritus Damien Keown". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "Stem cell research: Clash of faiths". The Economist. 1 December 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ Keown, Damien (1998). "Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Buddhist Perspective". Journal of Law and Religion. 13 (2): 385–405. doi:10.2307/1051472. JSTOR 1051472. PMID 15112691. S2CID 10435118. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ Keown, Damien (2010). "Buddhism, Brain Death and Organ Transplantation". Journal of Buddhist Ethics. 17: 1–36. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ Keown, Damien (2007). "Buddhism and Ecology: A Virtue Ethics Approach". Contemporary Buddhism. 8 (2): 97–112. doi:10.1080/14639940701636083. S2CID 144689054. Retrieved 26 December 2022.