Glenn McGee

Glenn Edwards McGee
File:Glenn McGee Ph.D. bioethicist.jpg Glenn Edwards McGee
Residence	New Haven, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, philosopher, professor
Spouse(s)	Summer J. McGee

Glenn Edwards McGee is a professor of management at the University of New Haven, who focuses on health policy. He has been noted 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.

Life and career

McGee was raised by adoptive parents on the faculty of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Human Genome Project.

From 1995 to 2005, McGee was an assistant professor and associate director for education at the University 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 the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. In 1999, he founded and became the first editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Bioethics, the highest impact journal in the categories of "History & Philosophy of Science", "Ethics", "Social Issues" and "Biomedical Social Issues" (according to the Journal Citation Reports).

In 2005, he moved to Union University in Albany, New York, as the John Balint, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and became director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany 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.

He was appointed to the John B. Francis chair in bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, succeeding John D. Lantos, inaugural holder of the chair. McGee is a member of the Honorary International Editorial Advisory Board of the Mens Sana Monographs.

On February 13, 2012, it was announced that McGee had accepted a position as President of the Ethics Research Division at Celltex Therapeutics Corporation, a Houston, Texas, stem cell bank. He came under fire for this move over a perception that there might be a conflict of interest between his editorial duties and his new position, and he subsequently resigned from Celltex on February 28, 2012.

He joined the faculty of the Department of Management in the University of New Haven business school in 2014, where he teaches but public health and health law.

Publications

McGee has authored many scholarly articles, essays, reviews, three books, and edited a number of books both personally and as senior editor of [The MIT Press] Basic Bioethics book series, which he founded with Arthur Caplan. His proposal for a California cloning policy was reprinted in Great 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 for The Scientist, and during the same time a column for the Albany Times-Union. Prior to that, he co-wrote a column on bioethics for MSNBC.com.

Books

• Beyond Genetics ISBN 0-06-000801-6
• Bioethics for Beginners ISBN 978-0-470-65911-3
• The Human Cloning Debate ISBN 1-893163-69-5
• The Perfect Baby ISBN 0-8476-9759-2
• Pragmatic Bioethics ISBN 0-262-63272-1
• Pragmatism and Human Genetic Engineering ISBN 1-58112-020-6
• Who Owns Life ISBN 1-57392-986-7