A groundbreaking collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.
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| Prologue: Defining Our Terms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consciousness Technologies: The Environmental Properties of Drugs and Media | |
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| Drugs: The Intensions of Humanity | |
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| Drugs as Environments: Being Inside What is Inside Us | |
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| Perceptual Amplifiers and Inhibitors: Some Parallels between Modern Media and Drug Use | |
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| Relationship and Identity Transformation: The Environmental Effects of Drugs and Media | |
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| Sex-Drug Technologies: A Media Ecological Approach to Birth Control and ED Drugs | |
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| ED Drugs and the Re-making of the Real Man | |
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| Recreational Dubs: Constituting Apple's iPod Cult | |
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| Selling Drugs-Pushing Media: Advertising, Consumption, Diagnostics and Dissemination | |
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| Pediatric Bipolar and the Media of Madness | |
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| Treat her with Prozac: Four Decades of Direct-to-Physician Antidepressant Advertising | |
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| The Extended Pharmacist: Entering the Era of Remote Drug Dispensation and Pharmaceutical Counseling | |
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| Media Peddlers, Pushers, and Pharmacists: Toward a Producer-Intention Model of the Media | |
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| Psychopharmacological Approaches to Understanding Communication Technology | |
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| Media Ecological Psychopharmacosophy: An Ecology of Mind for Today | |
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| Psychoactive Media | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Environmental Engineering for Ecological Balance | |
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| Epilogue: Epigenetics, Mirror Neurons, and a Few New Prescriptions on the Horizon | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Index | |
