Health care professionals have an ethical obligation to promote organ donation. Retrieval of organs and tissues from cadavers needs a boost through a holistic approach by involving the relatives of the deceased, the physicians, the transplant co-ordinators, the law enforcing agencies along with a dedicated and efficient hospital infrastructure and supporting logistics. This book describes the factors that affect tissue and organ donation in a medico-legal set up in India. The authors also found that a collaborative request made to the relatives by a team consisting of a forensic doctor along with the social worker working in the mortuary could play a pivotal role in improving the present system and promoting cadaveric tissue and organ donation.

Dr Karthik Krishna (MBBS,MD)is a Senior Resident in the Dept of Forensic Medicine at the prestigious AIIMS Hospital, New Delhi, India. Dr Krishna has primary interest in 'Clinical Forensic Medicine' & in addition to the medico-legal work & teaching;he is involved in promoting cadaveric organ donation. He has more than 25 publications to his credit.