Tissue and Cell Donation: An Essential Guide

This is the guide to tissue and cell donation that you have been waiting for. In this guide, policies and practices reviewed using specific donor case histories as examples. It is written by multidisciplinary, multi-national team of editors and contributors, with expertise in ethics, consent, transplantation, microbiology and tissue and cell banking. It provides a guide to easier and safer practice in referrals, tissue procurement, cord blood collection and decision making in general. This unique book explores a range of issues related to the human impact of tissue and cell donation programmes around the world. It addresses the areas that are of key concern and have profound implications for the donors, recipients and healthcare professionals involved. Focusing on tissue, assisted reproduction and hematopoietic stem cells, this book is essential reading for all those working in the field of human transplant donation and those who regulate this field.