Linda Glenn, JD, LLM

Linda MacDonald Glenn is a bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant and attorney. Her extensive experience and passion for the issues facing the legal, nursing, and healthcare professions make her a compelling and thought-provoking lecturer.

Formerly a fellow with the Institute of Ethics of the American Medical Association, and current Women’s Bioethics Project Scholar, Linda Macdonald Glenn’s research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging technologies and evolving notions of personhood.

Linda currently holds faculty appointments at the University Of Vermont College Of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences, and the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, Department of Biomedical Writing. An active lecturer, Linda has spoken at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Loyola University at Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School and various law schools. She has also addressed numerous public and professional groups internationally.

Prior to returning to an academic setting, Linda MacDonald 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.

Linda has advised governmental leaders and agencies, and published numerous articles in professional journals. Her most recent articles include “To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Navigating the Uncharted Territory of Converging Technologies” in the Fall 2005 ASBH exchange and “Keeping An Open Mind: What Legal Safeguards are needed?” in the recent American Journal of Bioethics on Neuroethics (March/April 2005).

In addition to her current educational, lecture and consultation work, Linda is writing several articles regarding evolving notions of personhood and maintains an ongoing blog (www.womensbioethics.blogspot.com) as a Women’s Bioethics Project Scholar.

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Blogs

Women's Bioethics Project

Love’s Labour Lost: An act of desperation leads to a bad law

First report on WA Death with Dignity law

Weighing the ethics of Parental rights as modified by multiparent conception......and its further implications

Bioethics and the Olympics

DIY Synthetic Biology - More Than Building a Better Tomato

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Articles

"Love’s Labour Lost: An act of desperation leads to a bad law"   Womens Bioethics Project  Mar 11, 2010

"Call 1-800-New-Organ, by 2020?"   Sentient Developments  Nov 17, 2009

"Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Liveblogging Part 1"   Ethical Technology  Mar 28, 2009

"Nanotechnology and Human Performance"   Nanoethics 2(3) Dec 2008: 265-275.  Mar 18, 2009

"The Embryonic Personhood Debate Continues"   Womens Bioethics Project  Feb 28, 2009

"U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Prescriptions for a Healthier Future"   Women's Bioethics Project  Jul 15, 2007

"Designing Children"   Women's Bioethics Project  Sep 7, 2006

"Meet Noelle, the Pregnant Robot"   Women's Bioethics Blog  Apr 19, 2006

"Vive la difference: Men’s and Women’s Brains Work Differently, even while resting"   Women's Bioethics Blog  Apr 6, 2006

"Designer Microbes, the Human Genome Project and Alternative Fuels"   Women's Bioethics Project  Feb 27, 2006

"Students Promoting Science and Technology in the Interest of Humanity"   Women's Bioethics Project  Feb 13, 2006

"Biotechnology at the Margins of Personhood: An Evolving Legal Paradigm"   Journal of Evolution and Technology, 13(October)  Oct 9, 2003

"When Pigs Fly? Legal and Ethical Issues in Transgenics and the Creation of Chimeras"   The Physiologist  Oct 7, 2003

"A Legal Perspective on Humanity, Personhood, and Species Boundaries"   American Journal of Bioethics 3.3 (2003) 27-28  Jun 9, 2003