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As versatile as it is durable, nickel is the indispensable metal of coins, plating, ceramics, and countless alloys. The significance of the metal - particularly its environmental and occupational health effects - has been the subject of widespread scientific research and debate. Nickel and Human Health: Current Perspectives is a definitive compendium of the research being conducted internationally in nickel toxicology. Featuring the work of preeminent researchers, including one of the "fathers" of nickel toxicology, William Sunderman, Sr., this landmark volume systematically examines such key issues as the biological utilization of nickel, toxicokinetics in humans, occupational exposure and biological monitoring of workers, hypersensitivity and immunotoxicology, clinical aspects of nickel carbonyl poisoning, and experimental nickel carcinogenesis. It also presents an historical perspective of nickel toxicology, as well as a summary of the worldwide epidemiological evidence for the occurrence of nickel-induced nasal and lung cancers among nickel workers. Its 50 chapters, each devoted to a separate research topic, reflect the collective effort of contributors to IUPAC's Fourth International Conference on Nickel Metabolism and Toxicology: Updated to reflect up-to-the-minute advances, the assembled work presents an invaluable far-sighted, multidisciplinary look at the subject that should prove essential for students, researchers, physicians, and allied health professionals as well as regulatory specialists in universities, research institutes, industry and government who are concerned about nickel toxicology and related health effects.