Elizabeth C Britt: 3 books
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible.
Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of...
Reimagining Advocacy
Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that results...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...