Damien Keown (born 1951) is aBritishacademic,bioethicist, and authority onBuddhist bioethics.^[1][2] He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History atGoldsmiths,University of London. Keown earned a B.A. inreligious studies from theUniversity of Lancaster in 1977 and a D.Phil. from theFaculty of Oriental Studies at theUniversity of Oxford in 1986.^[1]

Keown has published research examining Buddhism and the ethics ofsuicide,^[3] the issue of brain death as it relates toorgan donation,^[4] and the ethical relationship between Buddhism andecology.^[5] Keown's published works includeThe Nature of Buddhist Ethics (1992) andBuddhism & Bioethics (1995). He has also served as editor for theRoutledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism and produced two books in Oxford University'sVery Short Introduction series, one on Buddhism and the other on Buddhist ethics. He is a Fellow of theRoyal Asiatic Society.

• The Nature of Buddhist Ethics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1992
• Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Buddhism and Abortion. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
• Contemporary Buddhist Ethics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Buddhism & Bioethics. London: Macmillan Palgrave, 2001
• Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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