I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.
Dojmila me se činjenica da  se depresija obično vidi kao bolest suvremene  zapadnjačke srednje klase. Pošao sam saznati kako ona djeluje u nizu drugih konteksta, a osobito me zanimala depresija među vrlo siromašnima.