Heroic efforts : the emotional culture of search and rescue volunteers / Jennifer Lois.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-5293-4

1-4175-6861-5

OCLC:

780425906