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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book

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Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library.

Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s.

In 2014, scientists determined that the material it was bound with was in fact human skin.

But the university has now announced it has removed the binding "due to the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins and subsequent history".

Des Destinées de l'Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s.

He is said to have given it to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.

Harvard University explained its decision to remove the binding, saying: "After careful study, stakeholder engagement, and consideration, Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the book's binding no longer belong in the Harvard Library collections, due to the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins and subsequent history."

It added it was looking at ways to ensure "the human remains will be given a respectful disposition that seeks to restore dignity to the woman whose skin was used".

The library is also "conducting additional biographical and provenance research into the anonymous female patient", the university said.

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The macabre world of books bound in human skin

Des Destinées de l'Ame arrived at Harvard in 1934. Located within the book is a note written by Dr Bouland, stating no ornament had been stamped on the cover to "preserve its elegance".

"I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman," he wrote. "A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."

A decade ago, Bill Lane, the director of the Harvard Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Resource Laboratory, told the Houghton Library Blog that it was "very unlikely that the source could be other than human".

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In its statement, Harvard said its handling of the book had not lived up to the "ethical standards" of care and that in publicising it, it had on occasion used a "sensationalistic, morbid and humorous tone" which was not appropriate.

It apologised and said it had "further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding".

The practice of binding books in human skin - termed anthropodermic bibliopegy - has been reported since as early as the 16th Century.

Numerous 19th Century accounts exist of the bodies of executed criminals being donated to science, with their skins later given to bookbinders.

Simon Chaplin, who in 2014 was head of the Wellcome Library, which holds books on medical history, told the BBC at the time: "There are not a huge number of these books out there, it has been an occasional practice mainly done for generating a sense of vicarious excitement than for a practical motive.

"It generally seems to have been done in the 19th Century by doctors who had access to human bodies for dissection."

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Harvard apologised for "falling short of an ethic of care" in its stewardship of the book having first confirmed the human remains using scientific means in 2014.

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Harvard University has removed human skin binding from a 19th century book housed in its library.

The book is a copy of Des Destinées de l'âme, a meditation on the soul and life after death, first published by French novelist Arsène Houssaye in 1879.

The author handed the book to his friend and physician Dr Ludovic Bouland in the early 1880s, who bound the book with the skin of an anonymous dead female patient, without her consent, in a hospital he worked as a medical student in the 1860s.

A handwritten note by Dr Bouland inside the volume states that "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering".

The note also describes the process used to treat the skin so it could bind the text.

It has been in Harvard's collections since 1934, later transferred to the institution's Houghton Library.

Harvard announced the human remains were no longer in the library due to "the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins and subsequent history".

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The university said the skin would be placed into "respectful temporary storage" to "restore dignity to the woman" it belonged to.

In 2014, the library had the binding tested using a scientific process known as peptide mass fingerprinting, which confirmed the human origin.

Harvard apologised for "falling short of an ethic of care" in its stewardship of the book, saying the library had first published "sensationalist" blog posts centring on its "morbid nature" instead of the lack of consent by the patient or the morality surrounding the book.

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The Ivy League institution added students who worked in the Houghton Library years ago apparently underwent initiations where they were asked to get the book without knowing it included human skin.

The library is conducting further research into the book, Dr Bouland and the anonymous patient.

Previously, the text was available to anyone who requested it. Now, the disbound copy is off limits but can be consulted through Harvard's online library catalogue.

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