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Sir Raphael West Cilento (2 December 1893 – 15 April 1985), often known as "Ray", [ 1] was an Australian medical practitioner and public health administrator . Early life and education.
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.
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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.
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Cameron-Smith, Alexander, A doctor across borders: Raphael Cilento and public health from empire to the United Nations (Canberra: ANU Press, 2019), 314 pp. http://doi.org/10.22459/DAB.2019. DetailsFisher, Fedora Gould, Raphael Cilento, a Biography (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 369 pp. DetailsGregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. DetailsFinnane, Mark, 'Cilento, Sir Raphael West (1893-1985), Medical Practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 215-217. http://adb.an...
Cilento, Raphael, 'Medicine in Queensland', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 6 (4) (1962), 866-941. DetailsCilento, Raphael, 'Sir Joseph Banks F.R.S. and the naming of the kangaroo', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 26 (1971), 157-61. DetailsSmith, Alexander Cameron, 'Raphael Cilento's Empire: Diet, Health and Government Between Australia and the Colonial Pacific', Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (2014), 103-18. DetailsWikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13220759. DetailsVIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/11129868. DetailsSir Raphael Cilento Collection, University of Queensland Fryer Library, 2003, http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ms/uqfl44.doc. Details'Cilento, Raphael (18931202-19850415)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618850. DetailsHowie-Willis, Ian, 'Malariology in Australia between the first and second world wars (part 2 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology")', Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 24 (2) (20...Howie-Willis, Ian, 'The pioneers of Australian military malariology: some biographical profiles (part 1)', Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 24 (1) (2016), 12-24. DetailsSpencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. DetailsMay 3, 2013 · At the end of his working life as a medical bureaucrat, Raphael Cilento twice tried his hand at Australian federal politics. After an initial joust at a Senate seat, he was encouraged by the fledgling Australian Democratic Union to try the House of Representatives. His choice of electorate was heroic.
Sir Raphael Cilento died on 16 April 1985 at the age of ninety-two. The notice in the Canberra Times spoke of Cilento's “worldwide” reputation in tropical medicine, his contribution to the public health service in Queensland, and his role with the United Nations in the immediate post-war years.
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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’...
