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Damien Keown, born in 1951, is a British academic, bioethicist, and authority on Buddhist bioethics. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London, best known for bridging Buddhist philosophy and contemporary medical ethics in works such as The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (1992) and Buddhism & Bioethics (1995).
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.
Keown is the author of The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (1992) and Buddhism & Bioethics (1995). He also wrote two volumes in Oxford University's Very Short Introduction series, one on Buddhism and one on Buddhist ethics.
Keown has published research on Buddhism and the ethics of suicide, brain death as it relates to organ donation, and the ethical relationship between Buddhism and ecology.
Keown served as editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism, a major scholarly reference work on the tradition.
Keown is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a learned society dedicated to the study of Asian cultures, languages, and history.