[Reflections on abortion in the films of Aki Kaurismäki].

Contemporary reality presents the paradoxical world of information at its most extensive against the subsequent global spread of the individual's isolation. Isolation presented from the perspective of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. His film The Match Factory Girl is a story about human frailty, which brings us to recognize some of the weaknesses of our time and at the same time allows us to expose a bioethical analysis that aims to go beyond sociological reflection on cultural anthropology in the Western world.

[From the totipotence of the zygote to mature stem cells and reserve cells].

In the process of life-transmission, when could we say that we are in the presence of a developing human body? A new human being starts with conception, after the specific gametes of father and mother recognize and fuse with each other; inherited genetic information is fed back reciprocally between the two "pronuclei", during a number of hours, and the resulting egg cell is more than the sum resulting from the fusion of the gametes. It is a living being in its totipotent unicellular stage, a body indeed, with corporal axes assigned, and ready to develop following a "continuum", a marked-out sequence. Divisions initiated in the totipotent fertilized egg give rise to diverse stem cells: pluripotent, multipotent and germinating cells; these latter cells maturing in special niches.

[How to decide in a dilemma. Bioethical?].

Teaching and research in bioethics help one to understand the keys to modern culture, with a large plurality of guidelines, so that one is able to choose the most appropriate professional method. With this objective in mind, the author suggests one take as a reference a decision making model by which one can acquire rigor, depth and perspective, and which provides us a significant level of knowledge about science, the natural world, society, and especially, the human person. The author reported on this topic at the XXI International Conference on Philosophy, celebrated in Istanbul.