Tissue and Cell Donation

Contributors.
 
Foreword.
 
Preface.
 
1. Histories of Tissue Banking (Naomi Pfeffer).
 
2. Recruitment for Tissue Donation (Martha W. Anderson and Esteve Trias).
 
3. The Donor Family Dimension of Tissue and Cell Donation (Robin Cowherd and Jane Pearson).
 
4. Consent (Annette Rid and Lisa Dinhofer).
 
5. Gathering Donor History: Ensuring Safe Tissues for Transplant (Blanca Miranda, Alessandro Nanni Costa, Jacinto Sánchez-Ibáñez, and Eliana Porta).
 
6. The Role of Testing in Determining Suitability of Donors and Tissues (Paolo Grossi and Michael Strong).
 
7. The Management of Donor Test Results (Patricia Hewitt, Chris Moore, and David M. Smith).
 
8. Case Studies from Diverse Cultural, Religious, and Economic Situations (Aziz Nather, Li Baoxing, Muhammed Cassim, Hamid Reza Aghayan, Arieh Eldad, and Ján Koller).
 
9. Facilitating Donation - The Role of Key Stakeholders: The Medical Examiner, the Coroner, the Hospital Pathologist, and the Funeral Director (Charles V. Wetli, Diego Ponzin, Christopher Womack, and George McCann).
 
10. Staff Development and Support in Roles Associated with Deceased Donation (Riva Miller and Pamela Albert).
 
11. Ethical Issues in Unrelated Cord Blood and Bone Marrow Donation (Sally Gordon, Dorothy E. Vawter, and Jeremy Chapman).
 
12. Ethical and Consent Issues in the Reproductive Setting: The Case of Egg, Sperm, and Embryo Donation (Sarah Franklin and Sharon R. Kaufman).
 
13. Clinical Governance in Cell and Tissue Banking (Elaine Swanson, William Randell, and Danielle B. Freedman).
 
Index.

Dr Ruth Warwick, Consultant Haematologist, National Blood Centre, Colindale, London, UK and past Chair of the UK Blood Services Tissues Advisory Committee.

Dr Deirdre Fehily, Lead Inspector, Tissues and Cells, National Transplant Centre, Italy.

Dr Scott Brubaker, Chief Policy officer, American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), McLean, Virginia, USA Dr Ted Eastlund, Director, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Past President of the American Association for Tissue Banking.

"It is an authoritative guide for interested lay persons and generalist medical and science writers" ( The Royal College of Pathologists , October 2009)
"I found this book to be an exceptional resource that brings insight to many complex areas of interest in tissue and cell donation. It is a must have for all who work in the area of tissue and cell banking." ( Progress in Tranplantation, July 2010)