Harvard removes human skin used as binding for 1880s book, apologizes The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has been part of the ...

Harvard University announced it would remove a binding made of the skin of a deceased woman from the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” which they house in their library.

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed "human skin" from the binding of Des destinées de l'âme from its Houghton Library when a review found the book failed to meet "ethical ...

The book has been in Harvard's library since 1934. The book is said to be bound with the skin of a deceased psychiatric patient. Harvard's library said the human skin binding on one of its books ...

The Harvard Library announced this week it had removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century French philosophy book after a review uncovered multiple ethical concerns about the skin’s ...