THE BATH PETITION.

Petition 329

The tension between public health and individual rights raises key questions in the face of public health crises such as tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola: What are the circumstances that warrant the obligatory detention of individuals with an infectious disease as a measure of protecting the general public?1 What are the implications for the protection of privacy while managing and controlling the s...

Petition Drives —

DirectDemocracyP2P5 is an open source platform developed in JAVA and offering peer-to-peer and mobile ad hoc wireless communication capabilities. The platform offers an API supporting plugins, beside its main application: deliberative petition drives (aka citizens’ initiatives with integrated argumentation) [1]. An authentication-by-reputation technique based on digital signatures and peer revi...

The emergency petition process in Maryland.

Maryland's Emergency Petition statute allows a violent or suicidal person with a mental disorder to be brought to an emergency facility for rapid evaluation regarding the need for emergency treatment. Although many states have similar laws, little has been written in the psychiatric literature about the emergency petition process. The investigators evaluated emergency petition documents, demogr...

The Bath bike: son of Bath chair.

Four Dutch adults (twomen andtwowomen, age range 28-40) presented with vomiting and sweating. Two had suffered generalised' convulsions before admission. Symptoms appeared within two hours after they had eaten soup made from a wild plant that they believed to be celery. On admission none of the four had abnormal neurological signs apart from dilated pupils. All survived, requiring only supporti...

Petition for Writ of Certiorari