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Allen Buchanan

Allen Buchanan is Professor of Public Policy Studies and Philosophy at Duke University. His research is in political philosophy, with a focus on international issues, and bioethics, with a focus on the ethics of genetic interventions with human beings.

He is the author of Marx and Justice: Radical Critique of Liberalism (1982); Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market (1985); Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (1991); and Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (2003). He is also coauthor (with Dan W. Brock) of Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (1989) and (with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler) of From Chance to Choice (1999).

Allen Buchanan serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Council's journal, Ethics & International Affairs.

 
 

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Last Updated: Nov 28, 2006

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