Bookvolume editors, Jørgen Serup, Nicolas Kluger, Wolfgang Bäumler.
Contents:
Preface
The tattooed and the social environment. The cultural heritage of tattooing: a brief history
Epidemiology of tattoos in industrialized countries
The practise of tattooing. Tattoo machines, needles and utilities
The technique and craftsmanship of tattooing in the professional tattoo parlour
Tattoo as art, the drivers behind the fascination and the decision to become tattooed
Personal records from my tattoo parlour: deep emotions drawn as life-long pictures on the skin's canvas
Tattooist-customer relationships in a diversified environment of professional tattooists and 'scratchers'
Tattoos and adverse events. Tattoo complaints and complications: diagnosis and clinical spectrum
Complications of cosmetic tattoos
Chronic tattoo reactions cause reduced quality of life equaling cumbersome skin diseases
Contraindications for tattooing
Laser tattoo removal, precautions, and unwanted effects
Nano-scale observations of tattoo pigments in skin by atomic force microscopy
Manufacturing, materials and properties of marketed tattoo ink stock products. Manufacturing of tattoo ink products today and in future
The realistic variables underlying true safety in tattoo pigment manufacturing
Making innovative tattoo ink products with improved safety: possible and impossible ingredients in practical usage
Tailored surface engineering of pigments by layer-by-layer coating
Ingredients, chemical analysis and safety of marketed tattoo ink stock products. Chemical purity and toxicology of pigments used in tattoo inks
Survey on european studies of the chemical characterisation of tattoo ink products and the measurement of potentially harmful ingredients
Tattoo inks: legislation, pigments, metals and chemical analysis
The challenges and limitations of chemical analysis of particulate pigments of very low solubility
Photostability and breakdown products of pigments currently used in tattoo inks
Carbon black nanoparticles and other problematic constituents of black ink and their potential to harm tattooed humans
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of tattoo colorants and ingredients in mouse and man: the known and the unknown
Towards the limiting of health risks associated with tattooing: whitelists for tattoo pigments and preservatives
Survey of studies on microbial contamination of marketed tattoo inks
Regulation of and intervention in the tattoo business. The European landscape of national regulations of tattoo inks and businesses
Implementation of European Council Resolution ResAP(2008)1 in Italy. National and regional regulation of tattoo practices: diversity and challenges
EU actions to ensure the safety of tattoos and the protection of consumers
Surveillance of tattoo-related adverse events by the EU RAPEX System and by national monitoring
The Amsterdam model for control of tattoo parlours and businesses
Hygiene standards for tattooists
Hygiene standards in the tattoo parlour and practices for prevention of infection
Seamless prevention of adverse events from tattooing: integrated strategy emphasising the customer-tattooist interaction
Regulation of tattoo ink production and the tattoo business.