
Gül A. Russell
Professor
Department of Humanities in Medicine
102 Reynolds Medical Building
College Station,
Texas 77843-1114
Phone: 979-845-6462
Email: russell@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Education and Post-Graduate Training
B.A. (1958) English and Art History, Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri
Ph.D. (1962), John H. Edwards Fellow, Comparative Studies (History of Ideas under H.J. Muller; History and Philosophy of Science under N.R. Hanson), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
SOAS, University of London (1963-65; 1978-79)
Research Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London (1979-89) under E.C. Clarke; R.A. Hall
Honorary Research Fellow , Center for Neuroscience, University College London (1978-89).
Teaching Interests
Her teaching brings together the basic sciences & history of medicine; cognitive neuroscience and the arts (film, music, visual arts) to promote observational, critical, and perceptual skills of tomorrow’s doctors.
Research Interests
Her research interests are in the history of visual neuroscience & optics, the rise of empiricism, cultural transmission of scientific ideas with specific emphasis on the Arabic sources of the Renaissance and the seventeenth century.
Selected Publications
Russell GA (2010). ”Developments in Neurology After Galen: Late Antiquity and the Islamic World.” In: The History of Neurology. Eds. Stanley Finger, François Boller, Kenneth Tyler. Elsevier. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. III, 3rd series, chap. vi, pp. 61-77.
Russell GA (2008). “The Origins of Point to Point Correspondence in Anatomical Projection Prior to Descartes: Ibn al-Haytham (d. 1040),” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives, Vol 17, No. 2 (April-June), pp. 246-47.
Russell, GA (2004): The Horns of a Medical Dilemma: Retrospective Diagnosis of Alexander the Great, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences - Basic and Clinical Perspectives, vol. 13, No. 2 , pp. 157-63.
Russell, GA (2002): "Greek Medicine in Persia." In: Encyclopedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, Fasc. 4, No. .X (New York/London: Routledge), pp. 342-357
Russell, GA (2000): “The Optics of Ptolemy: Passions Aroused in the Groves of the Academe," ISIS: An International Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 554-61.
Russell, G.A. (1996) "The Emergence of Physiological Optics.” In: The Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Sciences, ed. by R. Rashed and R. Morelon (London: Routledge, 3 vols.), Vol. II, pp. 672-716. Translated into French (1997); Arabic (1998).
Russell, G.A. (1994). “The Interest of the Natural Philosophers in 'Arabick' in Seventeenth-Century England (Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp.). Editor and Author with "Seventeenth Century: The Age of Arabic" (pp. 1-19) and "The Impact of the Philosophus autodidactus: the Pocockes, Locke, and the Society of Friends,” pp. 224-66.
Invited Research Presentations
C.N.R.S., Paris; University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi); Oxford (Trinity College), Edinburgh; King's College, London; Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam; Free University, Berlin; Dibner Institute/Harvard; Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany; Oud-Turnhout, Belgium; Royal College of Physicians, Dublin; University of Padua, Italy; University of Istanbul Medical School, Turkey; University of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei; National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Delhi, India; The Academy of Science, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Kebili,Tunisia; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; University of Ohio Medical School, Columbus, Ohio; University of Oklahoma; Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and on teaching history of science: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.
International Service
Editorial Board, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) as a subject editor (2005 - present)
Executive Board, International Society for the History of Neuroscience (2006-2007)
Commission President, International Union of the History of Science and Philosophy (2001-2005)
Commission Vice-President, International Union of the History of Science and Philosophy (1997-2001)
Executive Council (1989-2001), the Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques
Founding editor of SIHSPAI (1990-2001)
