Linda MacDonald Glenn
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'''Linda MacDonald Glenn''' is an American [[bioethics|bioethicist]], healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging technologies and "evolving notions of personhood".
She holds faculty appointments at the [[Alden March Bioethics Institute]] at [[Albany Medical Center]] [http://www.bioethics.org/institute/], 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/]. She is also a Fellow of the [[Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies]] and a [[Women's Bioethics Project]] [http://www.womensbioethics.org/] 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].
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 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11648270&dopt=AbstractPlus].
She has advised governmental leaders and agencies, and she has published numerous articles in professional journals. Some of her better-known articles include "Ethical Issues in Transgenics and Genetic Engineering" at ''Actionbioscience'' [http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/glenn.html], "Keeping An Open Mind: What Legal Safeguards are needed?” in the ''American Journal of Bioethics'' [http://www.bioethics.net/journal/index.php?jid=18], "Biotechnology at the Margins of Personhood: An Evolving Legal Paradigm" [http://www.jetpress.org/volume.html] 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].
She also is the Editor-in-Chief of the [[Women's Bioethics Blog]] [http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/].
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