Scientific surgeon of the Enlightenment or ‘plagiarist in everything’: a reappraisal of Benjamin Bell (1749–1806) | Zendy

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Scientific surgeon of the Enlightenment or ‘plagiarist in everything’: a reappraisal of Benjamin Bell (1749–1806)

Author(s) -

I. MacIntyre

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 2042-8189

pISSN - 1478-2715

DOI - 10.4997/jrcpe.2011.211

Subject(s) - magnum opus , originality , biography , enlightenment , george (robot) , classics , medicine , art history , history , sociology , literature , philosophy , social science , art , epistemology , qualitative research

The Edinburgh surgeon Benjamin Bell has been regarded as a scientific thinker in the Enlightenment tradition, despite being accused during his lifetime of both plagiarism and a failure to be innovative. Yet subsequent historical accounts regard him much more favourably. A review of his life and work discusses possible explanations for this apparent lack of concordance.

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