This paper presents mental disorders of the Serbs caused by war actions from Balkan Wars to wars at end last century. Both stress/traumatic events (war actions, camps, refugees) and changes in forms tremors First World War, partisan hysteria post-traumatic stress disorder 1990s) are listed. A huge lack data for special categories population is evident War (civil victims, Bosnia Herzegovina) Sec...

The writings of a sixteenth century French teenager may seem a stretch for a public health readership, but Etienne de la Boétie's treatise on Voluntary Servitude explains why unjust systems prevail and how they can be changed. They prevail, he shows, because we let them (the losers always vastly outnumber the winners); and they change when we retract our permission (as Ghandi demonstrated). The...

Among the oldest and most pervasive economic institutions are bonded labor and serfdom. While seemingly exploitative, both bonded labor and serfdom are often not imposed on the laborers but voluntarily chosen. It is generally the lack of suitable alternatives which makes workers opt for a life in servitude. This paper shows that the existence of these voluntary forms of servitude itself may res...