Harvard removes human skin from binding of a book in its library

The Harvard Library removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye's book Des destinées de l’âme due to its "ethically fraught nature". "The volume's first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with the skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient," the university said.