Lorea Sagasti participates in the book Risks and challenges of transhumanism

Both the coordinator of Continuing Education of the School of Bioethics, as well as graduates and members of BINCA, contributed to the work of the Catholic University of Argentina various chapters.

Lorea Sagasti Pazos, coordinator of Continuing Education of the School of Bioethics, participated in the book Risks and Challenges of Transhumanism: Anthropological and Bioethical Perspectives with the chapter "What is improvement?".

Said work opens paths of dialogue and builds bridges that connect the future, improvements, dignity, nature and technical possibilities, where ideas are respected and affirmations supported with solid arguments that call to continue thinking positions that can be antagonistic, but that respect the intellectual wealth of the counterpart.

The book, which was published in December 2022 by the Catholic University of Argentina, also has the participation of Jesús David Vallejo Cardona (PhD in Applied Bioethics, gen. '21), who addressed the topics “Transhumanism: The situation of body before the new technologies” and “The 'algor-ethics' as a possibility of meaning in the digital age or artificial intelligence”; as well as Mariel Kalkach Aparicio (Master's Degree in Bioethics, gen. '16) and José Damián Carrillo Ruiz (candidate for a PhD in Bioethics from Anahuac), all of them members of the Anahuac Clinical Bioethics and Neuroethics group (BINCA), with the theme “Neural implants in transhumanism: Personalistic neurobioethical aspects”.

Thelma Peón Hernández and Mijail Tapia Moreno, members of BINCA, also joined the work with the theme “Transhumanism and the rebellion of homemade science”.