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Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s.
The decision to review the book's keeping came as a recommendation from the Harvard University Steering Committee on Human Remains, which released a report in the fall of 2022 stating the ...
The book was not bound in human skin until its acquisition by Bouland, who believed that "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering". He used the skin of a deceased woman in a French psychiatric hospital, where he was a medical student. After his death in 1934, it was acquired by Harvard University, although not formally so ...
In 2024, Harvard University announced they had removed the human skin from Des destinées de l'ame and were working towards a respectful disposition of the human remains. [38] The Harvard skin book belonged to Dr Ludovic Bouland of Strasbourg (died 1932), who rebound a second, De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis, [39] now in the ...
A copy of De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis kept in the Wellcome Library, believed to be bound in human skin Anthropodermic bibliopegy —the binding of books in human skin—peaked in the 19th century. The practice was most popular amongst doctors, who had access to cadavers in their profession. It was nonetheless a rare phenomenon even at the peak of its popularity, and ...
The skin came from a deceased patient without consent, and Harvard University is now researching a respectful way to handle the remains. Harvard removes human skin binding from 19th-century book ...
The Validity and Practicality of Sun-Reactive Skin Types I Through VI Thomas B. Fitzpatrick (December 19, 1919 – November 16, 2003) was an American dermatologist . He was Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Dermatology Service from 1959 to 1987.