Books written by Allen Buchanan
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From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice
“ Fitter Families ” competitions were mounted at state fairs , from Massachusetts to Oklahoma , with governors and senators handing out awards ( Rydell 1993 , p . 46 ) . By wedding eugenics to the ideal of the " average American ” at ...
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From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice
A 1945 report of a tuberculosis control program in Memphis aimed to x-ray “a large proportion of the Negro females in the community” so that housewives could check their health cards before hiring them as domestics (Graves and Cole ...
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Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force
Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 6th ed., revised by Kenneth W. Thompson ... Joseph S. Nye Jr., The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (Oxford: Oxford ...
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Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law
Holmes, Stephen, and Cass Sunstein, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes W. Norton, New York, 1999). ... Cambridge, 2003). and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence, 3rd edn. (Addison Wesley Longman, Boston, 2001).
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Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves
O'Keane, V., E. Moloney, H. O'Neill, A. O'Connor, C. Smith, and T Dinan. (1992). “Blunted Prolactin Responses to D-fenfluramine in Sociopathy. Evidence for Subsensitivity of Central Serotonergic Function.
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The Heart of Human Rights
This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights.
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States, Nations and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries
Yet liberalism in all its variants , as I have already noted , also gives a prominent place to private property . ... If the state territory as a whole belongs to the whole people , but if some of the land within the state is owned by ...
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The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory
The book avoids both biological and cultural determinism.
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Institutionalizing the Just War
"This book provides a new approach to theorizing the morality of war.
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Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism
In this book, Allen Buchanan offers a counterargument: the moral mind is highly flexible, capable of both tribalism and deeply inclusive moralities, depending on the social environment in which the moral mind operates.