Glenn McGee | |
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| Born | 1967 |
| Nationality | U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | Baylor University,Vanderbilt University |
| Website | https://www.salem.edu/people/glenn-mcgee |
Glenn E. McGee (1967- ) isProfessor of health sciences atSalem College, where he previously served as interimDean of Admissions.[1] He has been noted for his work onreproductive technology andgenetics 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.[2][3][4][5]
McGee was raised inWaco, Texas. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. inphilosophy fromVanderbilt University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in theHuman Genome Project.[3]
From 1995 to 2005, McGee was an assistant professor and associate director for education at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, where he held joint appointments in philosophy, history and sociology of science, cellular and molecular engineering, and was a Fellow of theLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In 1999, he founded and became the firsteditor-in-chief ofThe American Journal of Bioethics. In 2005, he moved toUnion University inAlbany, New York, as the John Balint, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and became director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute atAlbany Medical College which had been founded in 1993 as the Center for Medical Ethics Education and Research by Balint. Three years later, after a legal case arising from the University's attempts to demote him as director and remove his endowed chair, he left the university.[6][7][8] In 2009 he was appointed to the John B. Francis chair in bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, succeedingJohn D. Lantos, inaugural holder of the chair.[9] From 2014-2021 he served as a professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy in theUniversity of New Haven School of Health Sciences, where he taughtpublic health andhealth law.[10] He was appointed DeputyProvost and Special Assistant to the President in 2019, serving in that capacity until he joinedSalem College in 2021.[11]
McGee has authored many scholarly articles, essays, reviews, three books, and edited a number of books both personally and as senior editor of theMIT Press Basic Bioethics book series, which he founded withArthur Caplan.[12] His proposal for a California cloning policy was reprinted inGreat American Speeches, and a number of his articles have been reprinted in textbooks in bioethics, medical and other scientific fields. From 2005 to 2007, he wrote a monthly column forThe Scientist, and during the same time a column for theAlbany Times-Union. Prior to that, he co-wrote a column on bioethics for MSNBC.com.[13]
