Title: Drugs & media : new perspectives on communication, consumption, and consciousness /
Authors: MacDougall, Robert C.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Drugs and mass media.; Drugs Social aspects.; Advertising Drugs
Contents: 1. Consciousness technologies : the environmental properties of drugs and media. Drugs : the intensions of humanity / Lance Strate -- Drugs as environments : being inside what is inside us / Corey Anton -- Perceptual amplifiers and inhibitors : some parallels between modern media and drug use / Robert C. MacDougall. 2. Relationship and identity transformation : the environmental effects of drugs and media. Sex-drug technologies : a media ecological approach to birth control and ED drugs / Valerie V. Peterson -- ED drugs and the re-making of the real man / Robert C. MacDougall -- Recreational dubs : constituting Apple's iPod cult / Brett Robinson. 3. Selling drugs, pushing media : advertising, consumption, diagnostics and dissemination. Pediatric bipolar and the media of madness / Jonah Bossewitch -- Treat her with Prozac : four decades of direct-to-physician antidepressant advertising / Cristina Hanganu-Bresch -- The extended pharmacist : entering the era of remote drug dispensation and pharmaceutical counseling / Phil Rose and Ainsley Moore -- Media peddlers, pushers, and pharmacists : toward a producer-intention model of the media / Brecken Chinn Swartz. 4. Psychopharmacological approaches to understanding communication technology. Media ecological psychopharmacology : an ecology of mind for today / Ronan Hallowell -- Psychoactive media / John P. Skinnon. 5. The road ahead. Environmental engineering for ecological balance / Robert C. MacDougall -- Epilogue : epigenetics, mirror neurons, and a few new prescriptions on the horizon / Robert C. MacDougall.