Recent publications
Book
Heggie, V 2019, Health, gender and inequality in sport A historical perspective. University of Chicago Press.
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>
Heggie, V 2011, A History of British Sports Medicine. Manchester University Press.
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, '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
Heggie, V 2011, 'Domestic and domesticating education in the late Victorian city', History of Education, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2010.529832
Heggie, V 2011, 'Health Visiting and District Nursing in Victorian Manchester; divergent and convergent vocations', Women's History Review, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2011.567054
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.
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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