ABSTRACT
The research reported by George in chapter 5 answers important questions about how social-structural factors interact with age to affect the onset and outcome of depression. It does so by carrying out sensible analyses of state-of-the-art interview data gathered from a sophisticatedly selected representative sample of individuals in the community. It also uses similarly sophisticated methods to examine the course of illness of a reasonably representative sample of patients hospitalized for the treatment of major depression.
