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He was made a fellow in 1962. With Sir Raphael Cilento, the Society's president, he compiled a history for the Queensland centenary, Triumph in the Tropics (1959), and edited Queensland, Daughter of the Sun (1959) for the centenary of responsible government in Queensland.
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 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.
Biografia. Figlia di Sir Raphael Cilento (1893-1985), di origini italiane, in quanto il bisnonno di Diane, Salvatore, emigrò da Napoli nel 1855) e di Lady Phillys Dorothy McGlew (1894-1987), due eminenti medici australiani, nonché nipote del primo esportatore di orzo e mercante Charles Thomas McGlew (1870-1931) e bis-nipote dell'inventore e geometra minerario Cornelius Stanley McGlew (1839 ...
3 mag 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 ...
Raphael spend much of his career combating malaria and other tropical diseases. Cilento's mother was the medical practitioner and medical journalist Phyllis Cilento (née McGlew, 1894 - 1987). Phylis became famous for advocating family planning, contraception, and the legalization of abortion in Australia. She wrote many books on health matters.
