Book Review: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration by Vanessa Heggie.

Heggie makes a compelling case for writing expeditions and explorations into the history of twentieth-century science. Heggie, Vanessa Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019; 253 pp.; US$40.00 hbk; ISBN 9780226650883. Heggie deserves credit for showing the influence of exploratory field sciences in twentieth-century biomedical research. [Extracted from the article]