Vanessa Heggie

2025

Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex

Heggie, V., 17 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Medical history.

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2023

Medicine in the field: Growing connections between environmental and medical history

Heggie, V., 7 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History Compass. 13 p., e12786.

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2022

Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980)

Heggie, V., 14 Jul 2022, Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops . Armiero, M., Biasillo, R. & Morosini, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, 18 p. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies).

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極地探検で立証される人体の限界

Translated title of the contribution: Polar exploration proves the limits of the human bodyHeggie, V. & Ito, N. (Translator), 15 Dec 2022, Newton Press. 536 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

2021

Food

Heggie, V., 8 Apr 2021, A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire (1800-1920). Cooter, R. & Reinarz, J. (eds.). 1st ed. Bloomsbury, Vol. 5. (The Cultural Histories Series).

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In alto e al gelo: storie di fisiologia estrema e di esplorazioni

Translated title of the contribution: Higher and Colder: a history of extreme physiology and explorationHeggie, V. & Cavallini, D. (Translator), 16 Jun 2021, Codice Edizioni. 366 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

2020

Extreme acts: Narratives of balance and moderation at the limits of human performance: in Balancing the self: Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century

Heggie, V., 18 Mar 2020, Manchester Open Hive. Manchester University Press

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Introduction: blood/food/climate-physiology/nation/race

Heggie, V., 18 Feb 2020, In: History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 42, 1, 5 p., 10.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

2019

Blood, race and indigenous peoples in twentieth century extreme physiology

Heggie, V., Jun 2019, In: History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 41, 2, 20 p., 26.

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Health, gender and inequality in sport A historical perspective

Heggie, V., 2019, Springer Verlag. 20 p.

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Higher & colder: a history of extreme physiology and exploration

Heggie, V., Aug 2019, University of Chicago Press. 264 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

Heggie, V., 2019

Research output: Book/Report › Book

2016

Bodies, sport and science in the nineteenth century

Heggie, V., May 2016, In: Past & Present. 231, 1, p. 169-200

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Distrust and expertise: Can scientific journals continue as gatekeepers?

Heggie, V., 2016, In: Notes and Records.

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Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations

Heggie, V., 1 Dec 2016, In: Social Studies of Science. 46, 6, p. 809-832

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2015

Women doctors and lady nurses: Class, education and the professionalized victorian woman

Heggie, V., 18 Jun 2015, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 89, 2, p. 267-292

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4 Citations (Scopus)

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2014

Subjective Sex: science, medicine and sex tests in sport

Heggie, V., 17 Feb 2014, Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality . Routledge, p. 339-347

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Why isn’t exploration a science?

Heggie, V., Jun 2014, In: Isis. 105, 2, p. 318-334

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2013

Experimental physiology, Everest and oxygen: from the ghastly kitchens to the gasping lung

Heggie, V., 1 Mar 2013, In: The British Journal for the History of Science. 46, 01, p. 123-147

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14 Citations (Scopus)

2012

Volunteers for Science: Medicine, Health and the Modern Olympic Games

Heggie, V., 2012, Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern . British Museum Press, (British Museum Research Publication ).

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2011