Dr. Hamilton has authored many works for academic, scientific, medical and lay audiences including:

Books:

Allan J. Hamilton, MD, (Foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil): The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery the Supernatual and the Healing Power of Hope, New York, Tarcher Division, Penguin Books, 2008

Lay Audience & General Readership Articles:

Making Happiness Last
Spirituality & Health November/December 2011

The experience of happiness simply doesn’t last. It can’t, given the very nature of the brain. But that fact by no means suggests that happiness is not a worthy pursuit. Of course it is! The key I believe is to pursue happiness in a dedicated way that actually works. And the fact that this path to happiness is proven to work says everything about who we are deep down, and what we truly aspire to. Read Article

Four Awakenings to Compassion - Lessons From The Minds of Whales
Spirituality & Health July/Aug, 2010
The ability to decipher an artificially derieved symbolic language is a trait shared only between Cetaceans and humans. Read Article

Neurons of Compassion
Spirituality & Health July/Aug, 2009
**"Neurons of Compassion" was chosen by editorial staff at Spirituality & Health as one of top 10 artivles published in 2010!
Like most great scientific breakthroughs, the discovery of the human mirror neuron system was an accident.What may end up being the most important neuroscientific discovery of the 21st century was uncovered serendipitously because of an ice cream cone.
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Healing Prayers That Work
Spirituality & Health March/April 2008
If you perceive you're being prayed for and you are being pryed for, you'll likely feel better. Read Article

My Grandfather's Lipizzan
Haute Ecole, Volume 19, Issue 1
Dr. Hamilton recounts the arrival of the first colt from his Lipizzan breeding program, and weaves through century of his family's history that connected his Vienesse grandfather's devotion to the breed, to his own.
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Playing Doctor
Spring 2009 Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin
Television physicians have devolved from saints to sinners without sacrificing ratings.Read PDF Article

Additional Magazine Articles:

• Discovering the Heart of Medicine in an African Jungle, Harvard Med. Alum. Bull. 56:10-12, 1982
• Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die, Newsweek, March 26, p 15, 1984 (Guest Columnist, "My Turn")
• Healing Prayers That Work, Spirituality & Health, Mar-Apr 2008
• Best Practice:Patience, Spirituality & Health, Jul-Aug 2008
• The Still Small Voice, Harvard Medical Alum Bull. 82:46-51, 2008
• Soul and the Scalpel, Personal Excellence-The Magazine of Life Leadership, September 2008, p1-2

Selected On-Line Articles

The Spiritual Struggle Behind Grey's Anatomy published on The Washington Post - On Faith
By Allan J. Hamilton, MD

As a real-life brain surgeon, I feel it's important to recognize a bit of historic neurosurgical history being made: Thursday night the fifth season finale of "Grey's Anatomy" is here. I, for one, am grateful that neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (played by heart-throb Patrick Dempsey) continues to maintain a busy and demanding clinical practice every Thursday night. Read Article

A Second Chance – and Then Some! - on Creations Magazine
by Allan Hamilton, MD, FACS, • Tucson, AZ

Recently I was on a book tour in Seattle. At the end of my talk at the bookstore, a gentleman came up to me. He was a physician, which is a rarity at my talks. Most doctors are uncomfortable attending a presentation meant to open up a dialogue about the role of spirituality when patients confront severe illness or major surgery. But this man waited until all the book signing was over, and all the other audience members were gone. He had something on his mind. Read Article in Creations Magazine

Pull A Tom Cruise - published on Basil & Spice

The left side does all the talking. It’s where speech, logic, analysis—all the cognitive skills so valued by our society—come from. The left hemisphere of our brain is our species’ crowning evolutionary achievement. It is our left-sided linguistic abilities that launched us into well-coordinated hunter-gatherers. Our ability to make records, to share technologies allowed us to become the master consumers and predators on our planet. Read Article

More on the Web

Dr. Hamilton is a featured contributor for Bommer-Living.com where you can read his articles on Well Being.

Dr. Hamilton has also authored numerous scientific, medical and technical works. You may view a list here.