Glenn McGee

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name = Glenn McGee


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Academic biography

Glenn McGee, Ph.D. (born in Waco, Texas) is an American bioethicist. He holds degrees in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and Baylor University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Human Genome Project. He has been noted most frequently for his work on reproductive technology and genetics and for advancing a theory of pragmatic bioethics, as well as the role of ethicists in society and in local and state settings in particular. [citation|first= Glenn |last=McGee|title=Parenting in an Era of Genetics|url=http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=Ly0LvgGZyYvzhD0LzchjrlhlCPQzq1lfYncLvvbJs1CtzRpDycxp!-1667364753?docId=5002234765|journal=Hastings Center Report|date=Volume 27, 1997|accessdate=2008-07-07.] [citation|first= Roxanne |last=Patel|title=The Born Identity: Penn's Glenn McGee, one of the best-known bioethicists in the world, tries to make sense of the most controversial issues of our day. But when he discovered the truth about his own genes, he faced the hardest question of all.|url=http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the_born_identity/|journal=Philadelphia Magazine|date=July, 2003|accessdate=2008-07-07.] [citation|first= Lotozo |last=Eils|title=Penn bioethicist sees a wild frontier|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FE57C3C6608D932&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|journal=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=October 21, 2003|accessdate=2008-07-07.] [citation|first= Glenn |last=McGee|title=Ethical issues in egg and embryo donation|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=L4o1InVP9noC&oi=fnd&pg=PA229&dq=McGee+perfect+baby+JAMA&ots=ygcu6QhKrY&sig=i-ZOwHLvAvhFYQbQsZLoK85IPHw#PPA231,M1|journal=Sauer, ed., Principles of oocyte and embryo donation|date=1998|accessdate=2008-07-07.] McGee is the founder of the American Journal of Bioethics, which was described in July 2008 by the Chronicle of Higher Education as "bioethics' leading journal."

From 1995-2005, McGee was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's newly founded Center for Bioethics. In 2005, he was recruited as the founding director of Albany Medical College of Union University's Alden March Bioethics Institute. His abrupt dismissal three years later created a minor controversy. [citation|first= Cathleen F.|last=Crowley|title=Bioethics expert in dispute with Albany Med.: Glenn McGee files complaint in court saying college is not honoring severance package|url=http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=697584|journal=Albany Times Union|date=Friday, June 20, 2008|accessdate=2008-06-24.] citation|last=Borrell|first=Brendan|journal=Scientific American|date=July 7, 2008|title=Alden March Bioethics Institute Picks Up the Pieces: Embattled bioethicist sues Albany Medical College over severance package|url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bioethics-institute-picks.]

McGee now heads the Bioethics Education Network (bene)citation|last=Sichco|first=Adam|journal=The Business Review (Albany)|date=August 29, 2008|title=In Transition, McGee Turns to Growing a Bioethics Business|url=http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2008/09/01/story6.html?b=1220241600^1692509|accessdate=2008-09-02 ] , a consultancy group in New York that he helped found at University of Pennsylvania [http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/Resources/?pageId=2] in 1998. Bene houses the editorial offices of The American Journal of Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience, bioethics.net [http://bioethics.net] , bioethics.org [http://bioethics.org] , and blog.bioethics.net [http://blog.bioethics.net] as well as sites for iTunes and a continuing education and graduate education production group. He holds adjunct appointments in philosophy [http://www.albany.edu/philosophy/faculty.shtml#mcgee] and public health [http://www.albany.edu/sph/hpmb/faculty.htm] at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the University of Albany.

Publications

McGee has authored many scholarly articles, essays, reviews, and six books, including The Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics. His speeches on stem cell research have been reprinted in anthologies, and a number of his articles appear in textbooks in bioethics and in medical and scientific fields. From 2005-2007 he authored a monthly column for "The Scientist", and during the same time a column for the "Albany Times-Union".

References

External links

* [http://www.bioethics.net/] Home page for the American Journal of Bioethics and bioethics.net as well as blog.bioethics.net