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  1. Is Death Irreversible?Nada Gligorov - 2023 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 48 (5):492-503.
    There are currently two legally established criteria for death: the irreversible cessation of circulation and respiration and the irreversible cessation of neurologic function. Recently, there have been technological developments that could undermine the irreversibility requirement. In this paper, I focus both on whether death should be identified as an irreversible state and on the proper scope of irreversibility in the biological definition of death. In this paper, I tackle the distinction between the commonsense definition of death and the biological definition (...)
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  2. Telling the Truth About Pain: Informed Consent and the Role of Expectation in Pain Intensity.Nada Gligorov - 2018 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 9 (3):173-182.
    Health care providers are expected both to relieve pain and to provide anticipatory guidance regarding how much a procedure is going to hurt. Fulfilling those expectations is complicated by the cognitive modulation of pain perception. Warning people to expect pain or setting expectations for pain relief not only influences their subjective experience, but it also alters how nociceptive stimuli are processed throughout the sensory and discriminative pathways in the brain. In light of this, I reconsider the characterization of placebo analgesia (...)
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  3. Don’t Worry, This Will Only Hurt a Bit: The Role of Expectation and Attention in Pain Intensity.Nada Gligorov - 2017 - The Monist 100 (4):501-513.
    To cause pain, it is not enough to deliver a dose of noxious stimulation. Pain requires the interaction of sensory processing, emotion, and cognition. In this paper, I focus on the role of cognition in the felt intensity of pain. I provide evidence for the cognitive modulation of pain. In particular, I show that attention and expectation can influence the experience of pain intensity. I also consider the mechanisms that underlie the cognitive effects on pain. I show that all the (...)
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    Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - Dordrecht: Springer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11.
    Neuroethics is an emerging interdisciplinary field with unsettled boundaries. Many of the ethical issues within the purview of neuroethics could be described as resulting from the clash between the scientific perspective on concepts such as free will, personal identity, consciousness, etc., and the putatively commonsense conceptions of those terms. The assumption that undergirds the framing of the conflict between these two approaches is that advances in neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology can be used to explain phenomena covered by commonsense concepts and (...)
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    the human microbiome: ethical, legal and social concerns.Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Paul Schwab (eds.) - 2013 - Oxford university press.
    Human microbiome research has revealed that legions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi live on our skin and within the cavities of our bodies. New knowledge from these recent studies shows that humans are superorganisms and that the microbiome is indispensible to our lives and our health. This volume explores some of the science on the human microbiome and considers the ethical, legal, and social concerns that are raised by this research.
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  6. A Defense of Brain Death.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - Neuroethics 9 (2):119-127.
    In 1959 two French neurologists, Pierre Mollaret and Maurice Goullon, coined the term coma dépassé to designate a state beyond coma. In this state, patients are not only permanently unconscious; they lack the endogenous drive to breathe, as well as brainstem reflexes, indicating that most of their brain has ceased to function. Although legally recognized in many countries as a criterion for death, brain death has not been universally accepted by bioethicists, by the medical community, or by the public. I (...)
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    White Ignorance in Pain Research: Racial Differences and Racial Disparities.Phoebe Friesen & Nada Gligorov - 2022 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 32 (2):205-235.
    Racial disparities in pain treatment are well documented. Such disparities are explained with reference to factors related to providers, health care structures, and patient behaviors. Racial differences in pain experiences, although well documented, are less well understood. Explanations for such differences usually involve genetic or psychological factors. Here, we argue that racial differences in pain experiences might also be explained by disparities in pain treatment. Based on what we know about the nature of pain, particularly the cognitive and affective aspects (...)
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  8. Unconscious pain.Nada Gligorov - 2008 - American Journal of Bioethics 8 (9):27 – 28.
  9. What is an Identity Crisis?Nada Gligorov - 2023 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 30 (3-4):34-58.
    The use of brain technology that contributes to psychological changes has spurred a debate about personal identity. Some argue that neurotechnology does not undermine personal continuity (Levy, 2011) while others argue that it does (Kreitmair, 2019; Schechtman, 2010). To make these assessments, commentators fail to identify psychological changes that cause personal discontinuity. In this paper, I present a view that identifies personal continuity with the maintenance of a self-concept. I argue that a concept of self requires the ability to self-ascribe (...)
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  10. Not Extended, but Enhanced: Internal Improvements to Cognition and the Maintenance of Cognitive Agency.Nada Gligorov - 2023 - In Fabrice Jotterand & Marcello Ienca (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement. Routledge.
    This chapter will address the axiological objection to cognitive enhancement, which is that the use of cognitive enhancers reduces the value of cognitive achievement. In a recent defense of cognitive enhancement, Carter and Pritchard (2019) utilize the extended mind hypothesis to argue that cognitive enhancers do not compromise knowledge acquisition. In this chapter, it will be demonstrated that the reliance on the extended mind hypothesis leaves some cognitive enhancers vulnerable to the axiological objection. To expand the scope of the argument, (...)
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  11. The Impact of Personal Identity on Advance Directives.Nada Gligorov & Christine Vitrano - 2011 - Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (2):147-158.
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    Improving third-year medical students' competency in clinical moral reasoning: Two interventions.Paul J. Cummins, Katherine J. Mendis, Robert Fallar, Amanda Favia, Lily Frank, Carolyn Plunkett, Nada Gligorov & Rosamond Rhodes - 2016 - AJOB Empirical Bioethics 7 (3):140-148.
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    Respect for Autonomy Requires a Mental Model.Nada Gligorov & Pierce Randall - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (7):53-55.
    Making decisions for incapacitated patients has been a perennial problem in bioethics. Surrogate decision-makers are sometimes expected to use substituted judgment to make such decisions. Applying...
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    Surrogate decision making for unrepresented patients: Proposing a harm reduction interpretation of the best interest standard.Nada Gligorov & Phoebe Friesen - 2020 - Clinical Ethics 15 (2):57-64.
    Unrepresented patients are individuals who lack decision makingcapacity and have no family or friends to make medical decisions for them. This population is growing in number in the United States, particularly within emergency and intensive care settings. While some bioethical discussion has taken place in response to the question of who ought to make decisions for these patients, the issue of how surrogate medical decisions ought to be made for this population remains unexplored. In this paper, we argue that standard (...)
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    Saying Privacy, Meaning Confidentiality.Abraham P. Schwab, Lily Frank & Nada Gligorov - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (11):44-45.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 11, Page 44-45, November 2011.
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    Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Skill: Integrating Standardized Patients into Bioethics Education.Nada Gligorov, Terry M. Sommer, Ellen C. Tobin Ballato, Lily E. Frank & Rosamond Rhodes - 2015 - Hastings Center Report 45 (5):25-30.
    Upon entering the examination room, Caitlyn encounters a woman sitting alone and in distress. Caitlyn introduces herself as the hospital ethicist and tells the woman, Mrs. Dennis, that her aim is to help her reach a decision about whether to perform an autopsy on her recently deceased husband. Mrs. Dennis begins the encounter by telling the ethicist that she has to decide quickly, but that she is very torn about what to do. Mrs. Dennis adds, “My sons disagree about the (...)
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  17. Reconsidering the Impact of Affective Forecasting.Nada Gligorov - 2009 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (2):166.
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    The medical record as legal document: When can the patient dictate the content? An ethics case from the Department of Neurology.Robert Accordino, Nicholas Kopple-Perry, Nada Gligorov & Stephen Krieger - 2014 - Clinical Ethics 9 (1):53-56.
    Confidentiality of health information is increasingly relevant in the era of electronic medical records. We discuss the case of a hospitalized patient who requested a neurology consultation for an episode he described as an “LSD-like” (Lysergic acid diethylamide) flashback. The patient expressed concern that the episode was a residual effect of past drug use, but subsequently requested that his drug use not be documented. Involved in a custody battle, he feared that if his records were released to the court he (...)
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    Facts and Authenticity.Nada Gligorov - 2019 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 10 (4):198-199.
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    Personal Identity.Nada Gligorov, Jody Azzouni, Douglas P. Lackey & Arnold Zweig - 2013 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Paul Schwab (eds.), the human microbiome: ethical, legal and social concerns. Oxford university press.
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    A Model for the Assessment of Medical Students' Competency in Medical Ethics.Amanda Favia, Lily Frank, Nada Gligorov, Steven Birnbaum, Paul Cummins, Robert Fallar, Kyle Ferguson, Katherine Mendis, Erica Friedman & Rosamond Rhodes - 2013 - AJOB Primary Research 4 (4):68-83.
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  22. Complexity, Not Severity: Reinterpreting the Sliding Scale of Capacity.George Mellgard & Nada Gligorov - 2022 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4 (31):506–517.
    In this article, we focus on the definition and application of the sliding scale of capacity. We show that the current interpretations of the sliding scale confound distinct features of the medical decision, such as its urgency, its severity, or its complexity, that do not always covary.We propose that the threshold for assessing capacity should be adjusted based solely on the cognitive complexity of the decision at hand. We further suggest that the complexity of a decision should be identified based (...)
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  23. Do You Remember Who You Are? The Pillars of Identity in Dementia.Nada Gligorov & Christopher Langston - 2021 - In Veljko Dubljevic & Frances Bottenberg (eds.), Living With Dementia. pp. 39-54.
    Loss of personal identity in dementia can raise a number of ethical considerations, including the applicability of advance directives and the validity of patient preferences that seem incongruous with a previous history of values. In this chapter, we first endorse the self-concept view as the most appropriate approach to personal continuity in healthcare. We briefly describe two different types of dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bv-FTD). We identify elements considered important for the continuation of a self-concept, including (...)
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  24. Undermining Retributivism.Nada Gligorov - 2014 - APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 13 (2):7-12.
  25. Free will from the neurophilosophical perspective.Nada Gligorov - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (1):49-51.
  26. The Cognitive Basis of Commonsense Morality.Nada Gligorov - 2018 - Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 2 (4):369-376.
    The established two tracks of neuroenhancement, moral and cognitive enhancements, rest on the characterization of commonsense morality as a set of static psychological dispositions. In this paper, I challenge this way of describing commonsense morality. I draw a parallel between commonsense psychology and commonsense morality, and I propose that the right way to characterize commonsense morality is as an empirically evaluable theory, with a structure similar to a scientific theory. I argue further that psychological dispositions to react in certain ways (...)
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  27. The Revisability of Moral concepts.Nada Gligorov - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (4):32-34.
  28. The Truth About Memory and Identity.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - In Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense. Dordrecht: Springer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11.
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  29. Unconscious Volition.Nada Gligorov - 2017 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3):151-152.
  30. The revisability of commonsense psychology.Nada Gligorov - 2010 - Theoria: Beograd 53 (2):53-61.
  31. Privacy, Confidentiality, and New Ways of Knowing More in The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns.Nada Gligorov, Abraham Schwab, Lily Frank & Brett Trusko - 2013 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Paul Schwab (eds.), the human microbiome: ethical, legal and social concerns. Oxford university press.
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    (1 other version)Seeking more than health: Using medicine for enhancement.Nada Gligorov - 2012 - Filozofija I Društvo 23 (2):79-90.
    The purpose of this essay is to examine some of the ethical concerns raised regarding the use of neuroenhancers. Authors such as Fukuyama and Sandel argue that medical intervention should be limited to treatment of disease, and that enhancement should be outside of the scope of medicine. This commentary will examine the distinction between treatment and enhancement. I shall conclude that it is not a well-drawn distinction and should not be used to provide guidance with regards to the use of (...)
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    Death and Irreversibility.Nada Gligorov - 2020 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 29 (3):334-336.
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  34. Eliminative materialism and the distinction between common sense and science.Nada Gligorov - 2007 - Dissertation,
    It is one of the premises of eliminative materialism that commonsense psychology constitutes a theory. There is agreement that mental states can be construed as posited entities for the explanation and prediction of behavior. Disputes arise when it comes to the range of the commonsense theory of mental states. In chapter one, I review major arguments concerning the span and nature of folk psychology. In chapter two, relying on arguments by Quine and Sellars, I argue that the precise scope of (...)
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  35. Identifying Death.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - In Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense. Dordrecht: Springer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11.
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  36. Objectifying Pain.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - In Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense. Dordrecht: Springer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11.
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  37. The Common Notion of Free Will.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - In Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense. Dordrecht: Springer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11.
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    Scientific claims are constitutive of common sense about health.Nada Gligorov - 2019 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
    Endorsing the view that commonsense conceptions are shaped by scientific claims provides an explanation for why microbiota-gut-brain research might become incorporated into commonsense notions of health. But scientific claims also shape notions of personal identity, which accounts for why they can become entrenched in common sense even after they have been refuted by science.
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    The Applicability of Psychological and Moral Distinctions in an Emerging Neuroscientific Framework.Nada Gligorov - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (4):191-192.
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    Behind the silence: Chinese voices on abortion. [REVIEW]Nada Gligorov - 2008 - Developing World Bioethics 8 (1):53–55.
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    Current Controversies in Bioethics, edited by S. Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil. [REVIEW]Nada Gligorov - 2019 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 16 (4):513-516.
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    Review of David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry - Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide. [REVIEW]Nada Gligorov - 2007 - American Journal of Bioethics 7 (11):52-53.