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.

Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton ...

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After nearly a century, Harvard's Houghton Library is removing the binding of a book made from the skin of a French psychiatric patient.

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The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.

At first, when a pallet of boxes showed up at the Harvard Book Store’s Needham warehouse earlier this month, nothing seemed fishy about it. The store, which was prepping for its semiannual ...

Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century text because it was taken without consent from a deceased woman.

Harvard University library officials say they have removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century book in the university’s collection and are exploring “respectful” ways to lay the ...