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Sir Raphael West Cilento (2 December 1893 – 15 April 1985), often known as "Ray", was an Australian medical practitioner and public health administrator. Early life and education [ edit ] Cilento was born in Jamestown, South Australia , in 1893, son of Raphael Ambrose Cilento, a stationmaster (whose father Salvatore had emigrated from Naples , Italy in 1855), [2] and Frances Ellen Elizabeth ( née West). [1]
Sir Raphael West (Ray) Cilento (1893-1985), medical practitioner and public servant, was born on 2 December 1893 at Jamestown, South Australia, second of five children of South Australian-born parents Raphael Ambrose Cilento, stationmaster, and his wife Frances Ellen Elizabeth, née West. His paternal grandfather, an Italian migrant, had run a ...
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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 ...
Sir Raphael Cilento, well known for his association with tropical medicine and social hygiene in Australia in the first half of the twentieth century, also played a pivotal role in the maintenance and alteration of the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal leprosy management strategies during the 1930s. 3.
May 3, 2013 · 33 In addition to the references cited earlier on public health and tropical medicine, Cilento is the subject of two recent doctoral theses: Alexander Cameron-Smith, ‘Doctor across borders: Raphael Cilento and public health from empire to the United Nations’, PhD thesis, University of Sydney (2011); and Gregory Watters, ‘The white doctors’ burden: the Australian medical profession and Asia’, PhD thesis, Deakin University (2011).
An Australian ‘first’ — R.W. Cilento’s book Malaria During the early 1920s Dr Raphael West Cilento (1893–1985) emerged as one of the leading figures in Australian malariology.22 Part 1 in this series profiled Cilento in detail. It pointed out how he wrote the first Australian book on malaria.
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Sir Raphael Cilento, well known for his association with tropical medicine and social hygiene in Australia in the irst half of the twentieth century, also played a pivotal role in the maintenance and alteration of the Queensland government’s Aboriginal leprosy management strategies during the 1930s.3 Historians have generally overlooked Cilento’s involvement in leprosy management, and perhaps more signiicantly failed to explore the operations of Fantome Island leprosarium, the ...
