Linda MacDonald Glenn
{{Short description|American bioethicist}}
Linda MacDonald Glenn is an American bioethicist, 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".
Biography
She is the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advancing Technologies (CAVEAT), housed at Crown College, University of California Santa Cruz. In addition to UCSC, she holds faculty appointments at California State University, Monterey Bay, and the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center,.http://www.amc.edu/Academic/bioethics/faculty.cfm#fac10 {{Dead link|date=August 2022}} She has also taught at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, Department of Biomedical Writing.[http://www.usip.edu/graduate/biomedwriting/ Biomedical Writing Graduate Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920160447/http://www.usip.edu/graduate/biomedwriting/ |date=September 20, 2006 }} She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a Women's Bioethics Project [https://archive.today/20130416044621/http://www.womensbioethics.org/ Women's Bioethics Project] Scholar. In addition, she completed a fellowship at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association.[http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2558.html AMA - Institute for Ethics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104154031/http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2558.html |date=January 4, 2009 }}
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 the Gray v. Romeo case.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11648270&dopt=AbstractPlus Gray v. Romeo. [Fed Suppl. 1988] - PubMed result] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071926/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11648270&dopt=AbstractPlus |date=November 7, 2015 }}
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" at Actionbioscience,[http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/glenn.html Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering and Transgenics (ActionBioscience)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231930/http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/glenn.html |date=November 20, 2010 }} "Keeping An Open Mind: What Legal Safeguards are needed?” in the American Journal of Bioethics,[http://www.bioethics.net/journal/index.php?jid=18 bioethics.net :: The American Journal of Bioethics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202075214/http://www.bioethics.net/journal/index.php?jid=18 |date=February 2, 2011 }} "Biotechnology at the Margins of Personhood: An Evolving Legal Paradigm" {{Cite web|url=http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/glenn.html|title = Biotechnology at the Margins of Personhood}} and "When Pigs Fly? Legal and Ethical Issues in Transgenics and the Creation of Chimeras".[http://www.the-aps.org/publications/tphys/2003html/Oct03/randall.htm Randall Lecture in Biomedical Ethics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430153658/http://www.the-aps.org/publications/tphys/2003html/Oct03/randall.htm |date=April 30, 2011 }}
She also was the Editor-in-Chief of the Women's Bioethics Blog [http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/ Women's Bioethics Blog] during the time the blog was active.
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