Humanity In-Between and Beyond

Monika Michałowska is a university professor at the Chair of Humanities, Department of Bioethics, Medical University of Łódź, Poland. Her research focuses on two main areas: medieval philosophy and bioethics. She has authored and co-authored many books and papers. Her bioethical research concentrates on bioethical aspects of reproductive medicine, feminist approaches to issues such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo, gamete and mitochondrial donation, as well as human enhancement and cross disciplinary perspectives (bioethics/film studies/cultural studies/body, bio and cyborg art) on dying, ageing, and embodiment.

• Chapter 1 A New Way of Coming-To-Be.- Chapter 2 Biodigital Being(s): Praxis Body Futures.- Chapter 3 Avatar Therapy and Clinical Care in Psychiatry: Underlying Assumptions, Epistemic Challenges, and Ethical Issues.- Chapter 4 Humanity’s In-Betweenness: Towards a Prehistory of Cyborg Life.- Chapter 5 “The Universe of the Person is the Universe of Man?”: Expanding the Schelerian Concepts of Philosophical Anthropology and Personhood into the 21st Century.- Chapter 6 Posthumanizing Relaxation in Science-Fiction ASMR.- Chapter 7 Human and Non-Human Persons in Not Inhuman Civilization.- Chapter 8 The eXtended Uni/M¬eta/Verse (XV) and the Liminal Spacesof Body, Ownership, and Control.- Chapter 9 Sophia: Potentials and Challenges of a Modern Cyborg.- Chapter 10 From Natural Humans to Artificial Humans and Back Again: An Integrative Neuroscience-AI Perspective on Confluence.- Chapter 11 The Transhuman Unbounded Existence: AI, Nanorobots, and Computational Simulation.