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Allan Hamilton, M.D., is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, a decorated Army veteran, and Regents Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona as well as a life-long horse trainer. His next book on the human brain is Cerebral*Entanglements—How the Brain Gives Value and Meaning to Our Private and Public Lives, to be published by Knopf in the Spring of 2024.
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