[EQ] The James Lind Library: explaining and illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments

The James Lind Library: explaining and illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments

 

J R Coll Physicians Edinb Volume 38 Issue 3 - 28 August 2008

The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

 

Available online at: http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/publications/articles/journal_38_3/james_lind.pdf

 

"….The James Lind Library (www.jameslindlibrary.org ) has been established to improve public and professional general knowledge about fair tests of treatments in healthcare and their history. Its foundation was laid ten years ago at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and its administrative centre is in the College's Sibbald Library, one of the most important collections of historic medical manuscripts, papers and books in the world.

The James Lind Library is a website that introduces visitors to the principles of fair tests of treatments, with a series of short, illustrated essays, which are currently available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

 

A 100-page book – Testing Treatments – is now available free through the website, both in English and in Arabic and Spanish translations. To illustrate the evolution of ideas related to fair tests of treatments from 2000 BC to the present, the James Lind Library contains key passages and images from manuscripts, books and journal articles, many of them accompanied by commentaries, biographies, portraits and other relevant documents and images, including audio and

video files. New material is being added to the website continuously, as relevant new records are identified and as methods for testing treatments evolve. A multinational, multilingual editorial team oversees the development of the website, which currently receives tens of thousands of visitors every month.

 

The James Lind Library editorial team:

I. Chalmers ,James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK;

I. Milne, The Sibbald Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK;

U. Tröhler, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland;

J Vandenbroucke, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, the Netherlands;
A Morabia, CBNS, Queens College, City University of New York, USA;
G Tait, Information Services, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK;
E Dukan, The Sibbald Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

 

The James Lind Library

Created to help people understand fair tests of treatments in health care.
The principles of fair tests are explained in essays containing many examples.

These essays are available in
Chinese (中国), English, French (français), Russian (русский язык), Portuguese (Português) and Spanish (español).

The text of 'Testing Treatments' – a 100-page book published by the British Library in 2006 - is available here without charge,
in the original English, and in Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish translations.

The James Lind Library is dedicated to patients and professionals who have contributed evidence about the effects of treatments in health care.

The James Lind Library to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of James Lind's Treatise of the Scurvy.

http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/trial_records/17th_18th_Century/lind/lind_tp.html
Lind J (1753). A treatise of the scurvy. In three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject.

 

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