What is our responsibility to the most vulnerable among us? To those with the fewest resources to advocate for themselves? Such questions are not always prominent in bioethics, especially in North America and Europe, where the focus is often on deeply personal questions concerning the beginning and end of life. In Latin America, the focus of bioethics is often very different, asking questions about how social, political, environmental reality impacts the quality of human life and its ultimate meaning. In this talk, Dr. Fonti reflects on the distinctive contributions of Latin American bioethics, especially its focus on helping develop solidarity for the most vulnerable among us.

Diego Fonti is Professor in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Córdoba (Argentina) and a researcher at CONICET (Argentina`s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research). He has researched and published on applied ethics, mainly bioethics, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Bioética Situada. Contexto y Demandas (2023); Apostasías. Lo que queda para la religión en el laicismo democrático (2019); Levinas und Rosenzweig: Das Denken, der Andere und die Zeit (2009), Residuos Humanos. Estudios sobre bioética (2005). From 2012-2016 he served as Vice President of the Universidad Católica de Córdoba. He is a member of Redbioética UNESCO and of the environmental organization Foro Ambiental Córdoba. He lives with his children in Córdoba, Argentina.