About Nate Pedersen

NATE PEDERSEN is a librarian, historian, and writer in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-author of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything with Lydia Kang, published by Workman, which NPR dubbed a best science book of 2017. His next book with Lydia Kang is entitled Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science and Stories Behind the World's Worst Disease, which will be published by Workman in September, 2021.

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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything Oct 17, 2017

by Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

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What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?

Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.

Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.

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The Mounth Passes: A Heritage Guide to the Old Ways Through the Grampian Mountains Jan 22, 2014

by Neil Ramsay , Nate Pedersen , Graham Marr

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The Grampian mountains stretch across a considerable portion of northeastern Scotland. The word Grampian is a corruption of the Gaelic “gruaim,” or gloomy, and “beinn,” or mountain. Thus, the Grampians are the Gloomy Mountains, so-named for the clouds that frequently shroud the mountains in mist.

Since time immemorial, people have passed through these misty mountains as they traveled between the Scottish lowlands and highlands. The old ways through the mountains - the Mounth passes, as they are collectively called - are the subject of this book. Twelve roads are profiled, from the Causey Mounth on the eastern coast to the Monega Pass deep in the heart of Scotland. Each route is considered from an historical perspective, followed by a guide to walking the road (or what remains of the road) today. Each chapter is illustrated with several photographs documenting the paths as they have survived into the 21st century.

Praise for "The Mounth Passes:"
"This is an authoritative compact guide and the authors clearly have a great deal of expertise in the subject. Recommended for those with an interest in the history of Scotland." - Alex Roddie, author of "The Atholl Expedition."
"It will prove very useful for planning a walk and its portable format will allow it to be easily consulted when walking a route." - Gerald Cummins, in Rambles on Old Roads newsletter

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