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Heroic efforts : the emotional culture of search and rescue volunteers / Jennifer Lois.
LIBRA GV200.183 .L64 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lois, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountaineering--Search and rescue operations--United States--Case studies.
- Mountaineering.
- Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations--United States--Psychology--Case studies.
- Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations.
- Psychology.
- Mountaineering--Search and rescue operations.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Studying Peak Search and Rescue
- Joining up
- Socializing heroes
- Dealing with crisis: rescuers' emotions
- Dealing with others in crisis: managing victims' and families' emotions
- Labeling heroes: letters from survivors and families
- The emotional rewards of rescue work
- Heroic efforts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814751830
- 0814751849
- OCLC:
- 50761417
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