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Record W1553781518

Toxic Battery: A Tort for Our Time?

2008· article· en· W1553781518 on OpenAlexaff
Lynda Collins, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFree Will and Agency
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlaintiffAutonomyTortHarmPrima facieCause of actionAction (physics)LawLiabilityLaw and economicsSovereigntyBattery (electricity)Bodily integrityPolitical scienceEconomicsPower (physics)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The tort of battery exists to protect personal sovereignty over the body. Because the battery cause of action is concerned primarily with the autonomy of the individual, it is not necessary to show actual harm in order to recover for non-consensual contact of any kind. Even the administration of a life-saving substance may, in the absence of consent, give rise to liability in battery. When a plaintiff’s body is involuntarily invaded by particles of a toxic substance, her or his bodily integrity is compromised and individual autonomy violated. This article argues that a prima facie claim in battery arises whenever a defendant exposes a plaintiff to a poorly understood or potentially dangerous chemical. Such a defendant may exculpate itself by showing that it obtained explicit or implicit informed consent from a plaintiff with the capacity to choose. With this reasonable limitation, the battery cause of action is singularly well equipped to vindicate the individual’s right to bodily autonomy in contemporary industrialised society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.595
Threshold uncertainty score0.459

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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