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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450225703321

Autore

Lois Jennifer

Titolo

Heroic Efforts [[electronic resource] ] : The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : NYU Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8147-5293-4

1-4175-6861-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

796.52/2/0289

Soggetti

Mountaineering -- Search and rescue operations -- United States -- Case studies

Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies

Mountaineering - Search and rescue operations - United States

Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations - Psychology - United States

Recreation & Sports

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Studying Peak Search and Rescue; 2 Joining Up; 3 Socializing Heroes; 4 Dealing with Crisis: Rescuers' Emotions; 5 Dealing with Others in Crisis: Managing Victims' and Families' Emotions; 6 Labeling Heroes; 7 The Emotional Rewards of Rescue Work; 8 Heroic Efforts; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section. Many search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain in search of lost hikers or leave work to search potential avalanche zones for missing skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers in blizzard conditions. They often put their own lives in



danger to rescue stranded, hypothermic kayakers and rafters from rivers. Drawing on six years of participant o