V Heggie - Social Studies of Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com

Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations.

field stations

Heggie

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Excerpt

… This article offers a series of case studies of field stations and field laboratories based at high altitudes in the Alps, Himalayas and Antarctica, which have been used by Western scientists (largely physiologists and physicists) from circa 1820 to present. It rejects the common …

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