A DOCTOR ACROSS BORDERS RAPHAEL CILENTO AND PUBLIC HEALTH FROM EMPIRE TO THE UNITED NATIONS A DOCTOR ACROSS BORDERS RAPHAEL CILENTO AND PUBLIC HEALTH FROM EMPIRE TO THE UNITED NATIONS ALEXANDER CAMERON-SMITH PACIFIC SERIES Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email:
[email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760462642 ISBN (online): 9781760462659 WorldCat (print): 1088511587 WorldCat (online): 1088511717 DOI: 10.22459/DAB.2019 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover images: Cilento in 1923, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Neg: 186000. Map of the ‘Austral-Pacific Regional Zone’, Epidemiological Record of the Austral-Pacific Zone for the Year 1928 (Canberra: Government Printer, 1929), State Library of New South Wales, Q614.4906/A. This edition © 2019 ANU Press Contents Abbreviations . vii Map and plates . ix Acknowledgements . xi Introduction . 1 1 . An education in empire: Tropical medicine, Australia and the making of a worldly doctor . 17 2 . A medico of Melanesia: Colonial medicine in New Guinea, 1924–1928 . 51 3 . Coordinating empires: Nationhood, Australian imperialism and international health in the Pacific Islands, 1925–1929 . 93 4 . Colonialism and Indigenous health in Queensland, 1923–1945 . 133 5 . ‘Blueprint for the Health of a Nation’: Cultivating the mind and body of the race, 1929–1945 . 181 6 . Social work and world order: The politics and ideology of social welfare at the United Nations .