About the Authors

MARION REID, PhD is one of the world’s foremost authorities on blood groups with a knowledge and expertise that colleagues have described as encyclopedic. In a long and distinguished career, she has coauthored nearly 400 articles and reviews on blood groups, including the now classic Blood Group Antigen Facts Book, and Blood Group Antigens & Antibodies.

IAN SHINE, MD is the author of Serendipity in St. Helena: A Genetical and Medical Study of an Isolated Community (which Arthur Mourant said he would recommend to every clinician and every medical student, but for its price). He also wrote Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics (of which Philip Levine promptly ordered 40 copies on the spot!)