Glenn E. McGee (1967- ) is the Dean of Admissions at

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and

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of health sciences at

. He has been noted for his work on

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and

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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 in

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. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in philosophy from

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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

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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

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. In 1999, he founded and became the first

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of '' The American Journal of Bioethics''. In 2005, he moved to

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, as the John Balint, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and became director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at

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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. In 2009 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. From 2014-2021 he served as a professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy in the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences, where he taught

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and health law. He was appointed Deputy Provost and Special Assistant to the President in 2019, serving in that capacity until he joined

in 2021.

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

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Basic Bioethics book series, which he founded with

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. 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 ''

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''. Prior to that, he co-wrote a column on bioethics for MSNBC.com.

Books

*Beyond Genetics *Bioethics for Beginners *The Human Cloning Debate *The Perfect Baby *Pragmatic Bioethics *Pragmatism and Human Genetic Engineering *Who Owns Life

References

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