Recent publications
Book
Heggie, V 2019, Health, gender and inequality in sport A historical perspective. Springer Verlag.
Heggie, V 2019, Higher & colder: a history of extreme physiology and exploration. University of Chicago Press. <https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo41676188.html>
Article
Heggie, V 2019, 'Blood, race and indigenous peoples in twentieth century extreme physiology', History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 41, no. 2, 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-019-0264-z
Heggie, V 2016, 'Bodies, sport and science in the nineteenth century', Past & Present, vol. 231, no. 1, pp. 169-200. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtw004
Heggie, V 2016, 'Distrust and expertise: Can scientific journals continue as gatekeepers?', Notes and Records. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0031
Heggie, V 2016, 'Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations', Social Studies of Science, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 809-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312716636249
Heggie, V 2015, 'Women doctors and lady nurses: Class, education and the professionalized victorian woman', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 267-292. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2015.0045
Heggie, V 2014, 'Why isn’t exploration a science?', Isis, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 318-334. https://doi.org/10.1086/676569
Heggie, V 2013, 'Experimental physiology, Everest and oxygen: from the ghastly kitchens to the gasping lung', The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 46, no. 01, pp. 123-147. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000775
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Heggie, V 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. in Manchester Open Hive. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526132123.00017
Heggie, V 2014, Subjective Sex: science, medicine and sex tests in sport. in Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality . Routledge, pp. 339-347.
Heggie, V 2012, Volunteers for Science: Medicine, Health and the Modern Olympic Games. in Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern . British Museum Research Publication , British Museum Press.
Chapter
Heggie, V 2022, Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980). in M Armiero, R Biasillo & S Morosini (eds), Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops . 1st edn, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003095965-8
Heggie, V 2021, Food. in R Cooter & J Reinarz (eds), A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire (1800-1920). 1st edn, vol. 5, The Cultural Histories Series, Bloomsbury. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-medicine-9781472569875/>
Editorial
Heggie, V 2020, 'Introduction: blood/food/climate-physiology/nation/race', History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 42, no. 1, 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-0303-9
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