Glenn McGee
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Glenn McGee, Ph.D. (born September 1, 1967 in Waco, Texas) is an American professor of medicine, philosophy, law and public health. He holds degrees in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and Baylor University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Human Genome Project. His work is primarily in the areas of ethics and the health sciences.
At age 26, McGee was appointed in 1995 an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania's newly founded Center for Bioethics. In 2005, McGee was named founding director of the new Alden March Bioethics Institute, located in Albany, New York, composed of faculty from 12 institutions in the New York Hudson valley. He was also invested as the John A. Balint, MD Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics of the Albany Medical College (of Union University, chartered in 1873, whose other constituent institutions include Albany Law School, Albany College of Pharmacy, Dudley Observatory, Union College, and Union Graduate College), [University (New York)], and appointed directly to the rank of tenured full professor there. The Wadsworth Center of New York State Department of Public Health appointed him to a new role, Chief of the Office of Bioethics. Dr. McGee serves on journal, academic, state, federal, international, foundation and corporate advisory and directors boards and was a recipient of the United Kingdom Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy and as genomics and society programs reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council.
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McGee has authored many scholarly articles, two books, and hundreds of essays and reviews. From 1995-97 he authored a monthly column for The Scientist. He created bioethics' first website and its highest [ISI 2005, 2006] journal, The American Journal of Bioethics and its Editors' blog, the first blog by the editors of a scholarly journal. He created and is senior editor of the MIT Press' book series in bioethics. In 2007 McGee led the creation of the first academic journal devoted exclusively to ethics and the brain sciences, AJOB Neuroscience as a spinoff of AJOB, edited by Judy Illes of the University of British Columbia.
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- The Perfect Baby ISBN 0-8476-9759-2
- The Human Cloning Debate ISBN 1-893163-69-5
- Beyond Genetics ISBN 0-06-000801-6
- Pragmatism and Human Genetic Engineering ISBN 1-58112-020-6
- Who Owns Life ISBN 1-57392-986-7
- Pragmatic Bioethics ISBN 0-262-63272-1
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The journal McGee edits, The American Journal of Bioethics was noted by ISI in 2005 and 2006 (the most recent rankings) as the highest impact, most cited journal in medical ethics' history, and the highest impact journal in all of ethics and of history and philosophy of science generally. However McGee is a member of the ethics bodies of the World Association of Medical Editors, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Council of Science Editors. McGee serves on the following editorial boards: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Law & the Human Genome Review, Cambridge Quarterly in Healthcare Ethics, New Genetics and Society, Human Reproduction and Genetics, Stem Cells, Bioethics, Politics and the Life Sciences, The New Review of Bioethics, Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Christian Bioethics, Contemporary Pragmatism, Accountability in Research & The Scientist.
