Vanessa Heggie

ORCID: 0000-0001-9659-7072

Colleges, School and Institutes

Professional Qualifications

  • Associate Fellow Higher Education Academy,

Willingness to take PhD students

Yes

Keywords

  • D204 Modern History - History of Science, History of Medicine, Citizen Science, Exploration, Physiology, Eugenics, History of Sport
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Most downloaded publications

Women doctors and lady nurses: Class, education and the professionalized victorian woman
Vanessa Heggie, 18 Jun 2015, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 89, 2, p. 267-292

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

384 downloads
Why isn’t exploration a science?
Vanessa Heggie, Jun 2014, In: Isis. 105, 2, p. 318-334

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

193 downloads
Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations
Vanessa Heggie, 1 Dec 2016, In: Social Studies of Science. 46, 6, p. 809-832

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

125 downloads
Bodies, sport and science in the nineteenth century
Vanessa Heggie, May 2016, In: Past & Present. 231, 1, p. 169-200

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

123 downloads
Blood, race and indigenous peoples in twentieth century extreme physiology
Vanessa Heggie, Jun 2019, In: History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 41, 2, 20 p., 26.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

102 downloads

Recent publications

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

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Introduction: blood/food/climate-physiology/nation/race
Vanessa Heggie, 18 Feb 2020, In: History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 42, 1, 5 p., 10.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

Health, gender and inequality in sport A historical perspective
Vanessa Heggie, 30 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) University of Chicago Press.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

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