Contributors to the James Lind Library

Editor:

Iain Chalmers, James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK

Associate Editors:

Iain Milne, Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

Alfredo Morabia, CBNS, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

Ulrich Tröhler, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland

Jan Vandenbroucke, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands

Website development and management:

George Tait, Information Services, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

Document supply and preparation:

Estela Dukan, Library Services and Digitisation, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

IT management:

Inez Hyde, Information Services, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

Alfredo Morabia, Ulrich Tröhler, Iain Milne, Iain Chalmers, Estela Dukan, George Tait, Jan Vandenbroucke

Institutional support for the editorial team:

The Library and Information Services Department of The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK; Medical Research Council, UK; NHS Research and Development Programme, England; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern; Dept of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands.

Donors to James Lind Library Fund:

Current Controlled Trials Ltd; Institute of Naval Medicine; Worshipful Company of Barbers

Editorial Advisers

Iain Donaldson, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, UK
Harry Marks, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Emilie Savage-Smith, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Tilli Tansey, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Authors of explanatory essays, commentaries and biographies:

Clive Adams, Robin Agnew, Lene Andersen, Peter Armitage, María Cecilia Barreix, Hilda Bastian, Druin Birch, Max Blythe, Christopher Booth, Sue Boren, Arthur W Boylston, Michael B Bracken, John Bunker, Iain Chalmers, John Chalmers, Mike Clarke, Archie Cochrane, David Cox, Alan Craft, John Crofton, Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Martin Edwards, Michael Emmans Dean, Mireya Diaz, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Richard Doll, Iain Donaldson, Allan Donner, Peter Elwood, Sergio Erill, Curt Furberg, Yang Gong, Christian Gluud, Peter Gøtzsche, David Grimes, John Hampton, Elina Hemminki, Edward Huth,Tom Jefferson, Ted Kaptchuk, Catherine Kerr, Masamichi Kitagawa, Neil Klar, Michael Radcliffe Lee, Irvine Loudon, Micheline Louis-Courvoisier, Klim McPherson, Howard Mann, Harry M Marks,John Middleton, Iain Milne, Wendy Moore,Alfredo Morabia, Duncan Neuhauser, John F Nunn, Sjúrður Olsen, Linda Peters, Reg Passmore, Anthony Petrosino, Scott Podolsky, Jon Pollock, Drummand Rennie, Charles Rodeck, Roger Rolls, David L Sackett, Guy Scadding, Stephen Senn, Harry Shannon, William Silverman, Leonard Sinclair, Derek Stewart, Jan Stjernsward, Michael Stolberg, Susanne Stoll, Graham Sutton, Tilli Tansey, Stephen B. Thacker, Selma Tibi, Ben Toth, Ulrich Tröhler, Jan Vandenbroucke, Martin P Vessey, Jimmy Volmink, Susan Weingarten, Simon Wessely

Providers of other material and advice:

Doug Altman, Patricia Atkinson, Joan Austoker, Nick Baldock, Harm Beukers, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Howard Bloom, Robert Boruch, Joan Box, Michael Bracken, Laurence Camous, Kenneth Carpenter, Frances Chalmers, Jan Chalmers, Teresa Clarke, Hal Cook, Richard Cooke, Harris Cooper, Desirée Cox, Sally Crowe, Anne Daniels, Judith Daniels, George Davey Smith, Kay Dickersin, Anna Donald, Steve Douglas, Anne Eisinga, Imogen Evans, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Mark Fenton, Michael Ferriter, Stephen Fienberg, John Forrester, Patrick Forsyth, Janet Foster, Andrea Gareffi ,Paul Glasziou, Steve Goodman, Brian Greenwood, Gordon H Guyatt, Bec Hanley, Selma Harb, Jim Hartley, Philip and Ruth D’Arcy Hart, David Harvie, Larry Hedges, Harry Hemingway, J Hepner, Andrew Herxheimer, Jini Hetherington, Edmund Hey, Tony Holbrook, Tony Hope, Eddy Houwaert, Richard Hughes, Helen Hulson, Roderick Hunt, Geir Jacobsen, Ian Jenkins, Tony Johnson, Christopher Kelnar, Barbara Kirkham, Masamichi Kitagawa, Jos Kleijnen, Bruce Kupelnick, Ken-Wen Ma, Claudia Langenberg, Christopher Maher, Maureen Malowany, Harry Marks, Geraldine Macdonald, John Middleton, Tatjana Mikhailova, Frederick Mosteller, Ann Oakley, Sjúrður Fróði Olsen, Nancy Owens, Andy Oxman, Iris Pasternack, Alex Peck, Linda Peters, Royal London Hospital, Sophie Petit-Zeman, Mark Petticrew, Tim Powell, Patricia Priest, Michael Rawlins, Lucy Reid, Albert Rinsler, Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Karl Sabbagh, Emilie Savage-Smith, John Scadding, Mabel Scadding, Camilla Seymour, Julia Sheppard, John Simes, Wyon Stansfeld, Charilaos Stylianou, Libo Tao, Duncan Thomas, Hazel Thornton, Leigh-Ann Topfer, Bridget Trahair, Geoffrey Venning, Ekaterina Vikhlyaeva, Patricia Want, Chris Watkins, Geoff Watts, Micky Weingarten, The Wellcome Library, Sarah White, Jane Wickenden, John Williams, Charlie Xue

Translations of the James Lind Library Contents screen and the explanatory essays were arranged and administered by:

Luis Gabriel Cuervo and America Valdes at the Pan American Health Organisation, and Betty Galliano and Federico Carroli at Ocean Translations (for Spanish, Portuguese and French).  

Hoomen Momen and Jing Wang at the World Health Organization in Geneva (for Chinese and Russian)

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, formerly at the East Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organisation, now Director, Knowledge Management and Sharing, World Health Organisation, Geneva (for Arabic).

The translators were:

for Arabic: Ahmad Kamel, Kassem Sara, Gada Al Sherbini, and Atef Zayed

for Chinese: Qingdong Qi and Wenping Li

for French: Translations team of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/AMRO)

for Portuguese: Marco Neves, Joana Taborda, Vera Almeida, Rodrigo Gonçalves, and Inês Passos

for Russian: Boleslav Bairach and Roustem Rizvanov

for Spanish: Sandra Paván y Silvina Cantarella, Luciana Ramos, and Hernán Moreno

The editors are very grateful to these many contributors to the James Lind Library.

Note: The James Lind Library was launched in 2003, superseding Controlled Trials from History (1998–2002).