ISBN:
1760462713
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1760462659
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1760462640
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9781760462710
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9781760462642
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9781760462659
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 314 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
Pacific series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
610.92
Keywords:
Cilento, R. W
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Physicians Biography
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United Nations Officials and employees, Australian
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Biography
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Public health administration Biography
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Public health administration
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Public health administration
;
Australia
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Queensland
;
United Nations
;
Biographies
;
Physicians
;
Cilento, R. W
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
6. Social work and world order: The politics and ideology of social welfare at the United NationsEpilogue; Bibliography
Abstract:
In 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
Abstract:
Intro; Abbreviations; Map and plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. An education in empire: Tropical medicine, Australia and the making of a worldly doctor; 2. A medico of Melanesia: Colonial medicine in New Guinea, 1924-1928; 3. Coordinating empires: Nationhood, Australian imperialism and international health in the Pacific Islands, 1925-1929; 4. Colonialism and Indigenous health in Queensland, 1923-1945; 5. 'Blueprint for the Health of a Nation': Cultivating the mind and body of the race, 1929-1945
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-314)
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