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

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

137 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

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

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

74 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

50 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)

Higher & Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
Vanessa Heggie, Aug 2019, University of Chicago Press. 264 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

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

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