TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Philosophy of science can prevent manslaughter JO - Journal of bioethical inquiry A1 - De Block, Andreas A1 - Delaere, Pierre A1 - Hens, Kristien SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - In September 2020, the surgeon Paulo Macchiarini, who used stem cell technology to enable the transplants of artificial and donor trachea, was charged with aggravated assault in Sweden. In this comment, we argue that the Ethics Council of the Karolinska Institute should have considered issues from philosophy of science when they were brought to their attention, rather than dismiss them as irrelevant to research ethics. We demonstrate how conceptual issues of a philosophy-of-science-kind about clinical research and medical practice should be integral to research ethics.

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