The JLL’s Book of Essays presents key highlights from the history of fair tests of treatments. 20 minute read, PDF

Audio interview with Iain Chalmers. 23 minute listen via SoundCloud

Thee James Lind Library uses material from history to illustrate the principles underlying fair tests of treatments, their development and application over time, and how these relate to the interests of today’s patients.

Where to start?

If you’re new here, the best place to start is our audio interview with Iain Chalmers or our PDF Book of Essays. These resources set out those key methodological principles and link to historical examples about their discovery. Within the Library, each methodological principle is assigned a “Topic” which can be used to retrieve primary Records, secondary Articles, Essays and Blogs that relate to that aspect of fair tests of treatments.

About us

The James Lind Library is a not-for-profit, open-access resource created by an international collaboration of researchers, clinicians, information scientists and patients. New content is being added to the Library all the time, with Articles also being published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

We have been fortunate to receive a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to support the maintenance and development of the Library. Find out more about who we are, how we are funded and how we work.