Natural Resources for Human Health
September 22, 2026
A. S. Jothi
Cormac McCarthy’s companion novels, The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022), represent a profound late-career turn from externalized physical violence to interiorized psychological, existential, and phenomenological trauma. Through a qualitative, interdisciplinary close reading informed by Sartre and Camus’s existentialism, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra’s trauma theory, and Maurice...
Natural Resources for Human Health
September 19, 2026
Bhavyya Sharma
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly performs tasks associated with language, reasoning, creativity, prediction and autonomous decision-making, reviving old questions about consciousness, moral status and legal personhood. This review develops a multidisciplinary framework connecting philosophy of mind, cognitive science, AI ethics, jurisprudence, human rights, health governance and...
Natural Resources for Human Health
September 16, 2026
Rose Mary Jacob Vatakencherry
Healthcare workers are exposed to sustained occupational demands arising from caseload, working hours, emotional labour and repeated acute clinical events. Prolonged exposure of this kind may affect hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, autonomic regulation and inflammatory signalling. Yoga, mindfulness, meditation and structured breathing practices are increasingly offered to...
Natural Resources for Human Health
September 16, 2026
J Sajeeth Kumar. G Devadathan
Cognitive processes and emotions influence human behaviour and well-being central to both Indian philosophical thought and modern psychology. Classical texts like Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Taittiriya Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita present an integrated understanding of consciousness, emotion, mind through a holistic and spiritual framework. This study conducts a thematic and comparative analysis of...
Natural Resources for Human Health
September 11, 2026
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week self-awareness–based mindfulness meditation program in reducing burnout and improving job performance among hospital nurses in Indonesia. Methods: This quasi-experimental pretest–posttest control group study included 60 hospital nurses at Mitra Medika General Hospital, Medan, Indonesia. Participants were allocated to an intervention group...
Natural Resources for Human Health
August 19, 2026
Jayachitra Subramanian
Background: The perimenopausal transition is a demanding phase marked by heightened psychological strain, reduced life quality, disturbed sleep, and disrupted neuroendocrine function. Although hormone replacement therapy remains the standard medical option, there is expanding interest in mind-body approaches as complementary strategies. Still, well-designed randomized trials examining the joint...