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Alexander Cameron-Smith
Researcher at University of Sydney
Publications - 6
Citations - 91
Alexander Cameron-Smith is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Colonialism. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 80 citations.
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A Doctor Across Borders: Raphael Cilento and public health from empire to the United Nations
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Raphael Cilento's empire: diet, health and government between Australia and the colonial Pacific
TL;DR: Raphael Cilento's contribution to Australian public health also took shape through his career as a mobile colonial medical official, where his emphasis on nutrition and the social contexts of health in general developed in dialogue with his work in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea especially.
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Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India, 1947-1977 by Sanjoy Bhattacharya (review)
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Australian Imperialism and International Health in the Pacific Islands
TL;DR: The newly created Commonwealth Health Department intervened in international public health in the Melanesian and Polynesian islands in the 1920s to secure informal authority over the development of health services, which for some represented the partial fulfilment of long-standing dreams of Australian hegemony.
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Race, Medicine, and Colonial Rule in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
TL;DR: If the mandate did not systemically encourage projects in preventive health and social medicine, wider public engagement with the international discourse of indigenous welfare and uplift surrounding it at times shaped colonial administration indirectly.