An Interdisciplinary Approach to Vulnerability

This book examines vulnerability as an anthropological category, unveiling its profound role in defining human existence. Through an exploration of relationality, dependence, and finitude, it sheds light on how vulnerability shapes human experience and our shared fragility. Engaging with key philosophical, psychological, bioethical and sociological traditions, the volume invites readers to reconsider vulnerability not as a limitation but as a foundation for connection and solidarity. With this approach, the book lays the groundwork for a deeper understanding of human nature, enriched by interdisciplinary dialogue. A precursor to the theological and ethical reflections developed in the second volume, this work redefines vulnerability as central to the human condition.

Approaches human vulnerability with a transdisciplinary dialogue on its fundamental importance for humane ethics Appropriates the category of human vulnerability as the anthropological foundation of Christian morality Its language and presentation permits access to all educated readers

Autorentext

Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos is a Chilean PhD (STD) in Moral Theology and Master in Bioethics from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, where she was awarded the acknowledgement of the best doctoral dissertation in the 2019-2021 academic period. By vocation and by training her theological and ethical reasoning and teaching are informed by dialogue with other disciplines (e.g., theology, bioethics, philosophy, and psychology). She is currently academic researcher at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Santiago, Chile) and her lines of research are the Ethics of Vulnerability, Emotions and Ethical Deliberation, and Global Bioethics. She has recently been awarded a scholarship at Birmingham University, England, for the Psychology Cross Training Program for Theologians (2023-2025). In 2024 the Spanish version of this book was awarded the distinction of the Centessimus Annus Pro Pontifice Award International Prize for Economy and Society, Vatican City.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Approaches to the concept of vulnerability in Psychology.- Chapter 2. Approaches to the notion of vulnerability in contemporary sociology.- Chapter 3. Approach to Vulnerability from Contemporary Philosophy.- Chapter 4. Areas of Significant Contribution of The Category of Vulnerability in Bioethics.- Chapter 5. International Declarations, Ethical Guidelines and Orientations.- Chapter 6. Research Ethics.- Chapter 7. Clinical Bioethics.- chapter 8. Global Bioethics.- Chapter 9. Conclusions.