Drugs & media : new perspectives on communication, consumption, and consciousness / [edited by] Robert C. MacDougall.
| Other author | MacDougall, Robert C. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Continuum, ©2012. |
| Description | xxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Drugs and media |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011026085 |
| ISBN | 9781441134929 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1441134921 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781441119889 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1441119884 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | P96.D78 D78 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |