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Evolution's Bite: A story of teeth, diet, and human origins. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Madness in Civilization. A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2015.

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