Contents
Prologue: Defining Our Terms
Introduction
Part I. Consciousness Technologies: The Environmental Properties of Drugs and Media
Chapter 1. Drugs: The Intensions of Humanity / Lance Strate
Chapter 2. Drugs as Environments: Being Inside What is Inside Us / Corey Anton
Chapter 3. Perceptual Amplifiers and Inhibitors: Some Parallels between Modern Media and Drug Use / Robert C. MacDougall
Part II. Relationship and Identity Transformation: The Environmental Effects of Drugs and Media
Chapter 4. Sex-Drug Technologies: A Media Ecological Approach to Birth Control and ED Drugs / Valerie V. Peterson
Chapter 5. ED Drugs and the Re-making of the Real Man / Robert C. MacDougall
Chapter 6. Recreational Dubs: Constituting Apple's iPod Cult / Brett Robinson
Part III. Selling Drugs, Pushing Media: Advertising, Consumption, Diagnostics and Dissemination
Chapter 7. Pediatric Bipolar and the Media of Madness / Jonah Bossewitch
Chapter 8. Treat her with Prozac: Four Decades of Direct-to-Physician Antidepressant Advertising / Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
Chapter 9. The Extended Pharmacist: Entering the Era of Remote Drug Dispensation and Pharmaceutical Counseling / Phil Rose and Ainsley Moore
Chapter 10. Media Peddlers, Pushers, and Pharmacists: Toward a Producer-Intention Model of the Media / Brecken Chinn Swartz
Part IV. Psychopharmacological Approaches to Understanding Communication Technology
Chapter 11. Media Ecological Psychopharmacosophy: An Ecology of Mind for Today / Ronan Hallowell
Chapter 12. Psychoactive Media / John P. Skinnon
Part V. The Road Ahead
Chapter 13. Environmental Engineering for Ecological Balance / Robert C. MacDougall
Chapter 14. Epilogue: Epigenetics, Mirror Neurons, and a Few New Prescriptions on the Horizon / Robert MacDougall
List of Contributors
Index