Harvard Removes Book Cover Made Of 19th-Century Woman’s Skin From Library

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Harvard University’s Houghton Library recently made a skin-tingling decision regarding a controversial item in its collection: a 19th-century book titled Des Destinées de l’Âme (Destinies of the Soul). Written by Arsène Houssaye, the literature was discovered to be bound in human skin in 2014 through scientific testing. After years of internal discussions, Harvard announced that the unsettling layer would be removed due to its “ethically fraught” nature.

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