Towards The Classification Of Disasters And Victims

AJW Taylor PhD DHC(Reims)

DISASTER AND VICTIM CLASSIFICATION

    An emerging system for classifying previously disparate phenomena relating to
    disasters and victims is presented, and its rationale given, with the thought
    that others might also find it helpful to use in their remedial and clinical 
    work and offer improvements. The justification is that the combined topics are
    commanding widespread attention, and a satisfactory classificatory system needs
    to be developed to facilitate further inquiry into the factors that underlie
    them. The scheme was borne of necessity after the DC10 aircrash in Antarctica in
    1979, when reports of previous research studies were widely scattered conceptually
    and typographically, and its development was made to satisfy pragmatic rather
    than esoteric needs.

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