Linda MacDonald Glenn is an Americanbioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging and exponential technologies and "evolving notions of personhood".
She is the Founding Director of theCenter for Applied Values and Ethics in Advancing Technologies(CAVEAT), housed atCrown College, University of California Santa Cruz. In addition to UCSC, she holds faculty appointments atCalifornia State University, Monterey Bay, and theAlden March Bioethics Institute atAlbany Medical Center,.[1] She has also taught at theUniversity of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and theUniversity of Sciences in Philadelphia, Department of Biomedical Writing.[2] She is also a Fellow of theInstitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and aWomen's Bioethics ProjectWomen's Bioethics Project Scholar. In addition, she completed a fellowship at the Institute for Ethics at theAmerican Medical Association.[3]
Prior to returning to an academic setting, Glenn consulted and practiced as a trial attorney with an emphasis in patient advocacy, bioethical and biotechnology issues, end of life decision-making, reproductive rights, genetics, neuroethics, parental/biological issues (aka nature vs. nurture), and animal rights. She was the lead attorney in several precedent-setting bioethics legal cases, including theGray v. Romeo case.[4]
She has advised governmental leaders and agencies, and she has published numerous articles in professional journals. Some of her better-known articles include Legal and Ethical Issues in Regenerative Nanomedicine, The Moveable Feast: Converging Technologies on our Dinner Tables, "Ethical Issues in Transgenics and Genetic Engineering" atActionbioscience,[5] "Keeping An Open Mind: What Legal Safeguards are needed?” in theAmerican Journal of Bioethics,[6] "Biotechnology at the Margins of Personhood: An Evolving Legal Paradigm"[7] and "When Pigs Fly? Legal and Ethical Issues in Transgenics and the Creation of Chimeras".[8]
She also was the Editor-in-Chief of theWomen's Bioethics BlogWomen's Bioethics Blog during the time the blog was active.