Harvard removes human skin from the binding of 19th-century book
For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
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For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
After nearly a century, Harvard's Houghton Library is removing the binding of a book made from the skin of a French psychiatric patient.
For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
A review by the library determined the remains on the cover of its copy of Des destinées de l'âme no longer belonged in the library's collection, citing ethical concerns, according to the Ivy League school.
Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century text because it was taken without consent from a deceased woman.