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dc.contributor.authorCameron-Smith, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-15 11:44:05
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:47:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:47:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1004343
dc.identifierOCN: 1100525863en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25744
dc.description.abstractIn his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public health reform during the inter-war years and is best known for his vocal engagement with public discourse on the relationship between hygiene, race and Australian nationhood. Yet Cilento’s work on tropical hygiene and social welfare ranged beyond Australia, especially when he served as a colonial medical officer in British Malaya and in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. He also worked with the League of Nations Health Organization in the Pacific Islands and oversaw international social welfare programs for the United Nations. On one level, this professional mobility allowed ideas and practices of public health and government to circulate between colonial spaces of northern Australia, the Pacific Islands and Asia. On another, it meant that Cilento’s Pacific colonialism and colonial experience shaped his understanding of Australian national health and welfare. Rather than attempt a comprehensive biography of Cilento, this book instead uses this border-crossing career as a means to explore several material and discursive facets of Australia’s relationships to the Pacific and the world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicineen_US
dc.subject.othermedicine
dc.subject.otherAustralia
dc.subject.otherPacific
dc.subject.othercolonialism
dc.titleA Doctor Across Borders
dc.title.alternativeRaphael Cilento and public health from empire to the United Nations
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/DAB.2019
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760462642
oapen.pages326
oapen.identifier.ocn1100525863


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