Perché gli scienziati non sono pericolosi, Longanesi, Milano, 2009
La razionalità negata. Psichiatria e antipsichiatria in Italia(con Giovanni Jervis), Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2008
EBM. Medicina basata sull'evoluzione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2007
Bi(blio)etica (con Pino Donghi e Armando Massarenti), Einaudi, Torino, 2006
Storia delle idee di salute e malattia, Carocci, Roma, 2004
Le grammatiche del vivente. Storia della biologia e della medicina molecolare, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1999
Articoli
Evolution based medicine (ebm) an epistemological framework for thinking of, and dealing with the so called "crisis of medicine". Medicina nei Secoli 2008; 20 (1):115-39.
Italian neuroscientists are ready to start the debate (with Fiorenzo Conti). Nature 2008; 451: 627
The evolution of the biomedical paradigm in oncology: implications for cancer therapy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 2008; 610:5-18.
Scientists, bioethics and democracy: the Italian case and its meanings. Journal of Medical Ethics 2007; 33 (6):349-52.
Clinical, Epidemiological, and Genetic Investigations on Thalassemia and Malaria in Italy (with Stefano Canali). In Krishna R. Dronamraju and Paolo Arese (eds.) Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects. Springer, New York, 2006; 55-80.
Antimalarial strategies in Italy: scientific conflicts, institutional policies, Medicina nei secoli 2006; 18 (1): 75-95.
Genetic Risk, Medical Education, Public Understanding of Genetics, and Evolutionary Medicine: The Challenges of Genetic Counselling for Complex Disorders.Topoi 2004; 23 (2): 187-193
Lessons learned from malaria: Italy's past and sub-Sahara's future (with Louis F Amorosa and Mario Coluzzi). Health & Place 2004; 11 (1): 67-73.
Malariatherapy in Italy. A historical account of the therapeutic inoculation of malaria parasites in Italian psychiatric clinics. (with Alessandra Bonfigli and Edvige Fanfera). Medicina nei secoli 2004; 16 (1): 1-19.
Lessons from anti-thalassemia campaigns in Italy, before prenatal diagnosis (with Stefano Canali). Medicina nei Secoli 2002; 14 (3):739-71.
Adriano Buzzati Traverso’s vision of molecular biology in Italy. The origins and decline of the International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics (with Mauro Capocci). Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2002; 33: 489-513.
Medical epistemologies and pedagogies from Flexner to genomics. Medicina nei secoli 2002; 14 (2): 565-85.
Acquired immunity against malaria as a tool for the control of the disease: the strategy proposed by the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations in 1933. Parassitologia 1998; 40 (1-2):109-15
