Allen Buchanan (Ph.D. 1975, UNC Chapel Hill) joined the faculty in 2002 as professor of philosophy and of public policy in the Sanford Institute. He was previously at the Universities of Arizona, Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is the author of over one hundred articles and six books: Marx and Justice: Radical Critique of Liberalism (1982), Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market (1985), Deciding For Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (with Dan W. Brock, 1989), Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (1991) and (with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler), From Chance to Choice (1999). He served as Staff Philosopher for the President’s commission on Medical Ethics, where he was a principal author of the Commission’s two book-length reports on ethical issues in genetics (1983). As Staff-Consultant for the U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Buchanan authored the ethical framework chapter for the Committee’s final report (1995). From 1996 to 2000 he served as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Buchanan is currently Director of the Consortium on Pharmacogenetics. His most recent book is Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (2003).
