This book highlights the importance of adopting ethical policies and a code of ethics concerning tissue banking. It also shares the experience of a select group of countries in the adoption, implementation, and use of ethics in the creation and maintenance of tissue establishments.

Describing the difficulties faced and the measures adopted to overcome them, the book provides several essential recommendations for governments, professional associations and international organizations involved in tissue banking, with the goal of strengthening tissue banking activities in interested countries and improving the quality of all tissue establishments.