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

• Autore: Lois Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: New York, : NYU Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.52/2/0289
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Heroic Efforts
• ISBN: 0-8147-5293-4; 1-4175-6861-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820927203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II