We Toiled Without End Summary

In the 'We toiled without end': Publicity Crisis, and the Suicide Epidemic in Greece" Davis describes how the economic and social conditions is correlated to the gradually increasing suicide rates. She defines the three types of social conditions that Durkheim discovered to explain suicide stability. The three types of suicide include egoistic, altruistic and anomic, which deals with a large amount of "volunteer deaths". The author mentions the "'greek crisis' as a symptom of Greek exceptionalism" to show how the situation which occurs outside of Greece is influential. To support her argument she compares the crisis to historical times by using the media and information gathered from her research. Throughout her research, Davis gathered other