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In epidemiology, a virgin soil epidemic is an epidemic in which populations that previously were in isolation from a pathogen are immunologically unprepared upon contact with the novel pathogen. [1] Virgin soil epidemics have occurred with European colonization, particularly when European explorers and colonists brought diseases to ...
Virgin soil theory attempts to isolate the present from the horrors of the past by describing American Indian depopulation as the product of a unique immuno-historical moment. But by ignoring the social factors that created disease during the Columbian encounter, the theory makes it easier to ignore those same factors where they operate today. 33
13 de nov. de 2023 · Virgin soil epidemic is a phrase coined by Alfred W. Crosby in 1976, describing native populations as being at risk of contracting disease due to disease absence from the area for multiple generations. Immunologically defenceless, when faced with imported disease from explorers, virgin soil epidemics have the power to wipe out native ...
The historiography of disease in the Atlantic World has long focused on the theory of virgin-soil epidemics, which holds that since American Indians had long been separated from Old World populations, they lacked immunity to Old World pathogens and died, inevitably, in great numbers once these pathogens were introduced.
30 de dic. de 2023 · Virgin-soil theory helped justify increasingly rigid theories of race and race hierarchies in the late 19th century.
18 de sept. de 2020 · Historians call the resulting epidemics “virgin soil epidemics”. Coronavirus has demonstrated the impact that epidemic disease can have on a vulnerable population. Similarly, these virgin...
1 de oct. de 2003 · But by labelling the site of the St Lawrence Island epidemic 'virgin soil', the officers implicitly tied this rare complication in women to a theory that cast Indigenous populations as genetically ...
