{"id":16128,"date":"2024-03-31T04:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/harvard-removes-book-crafted-with-human-skin-from-university-library\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T04:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:41:57","slug":"harvard-removes-book-crafted-with-human-skin-from-university-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/harvard-removes-book-crafted-with-human-skin-from-university-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Removes Book Crafted With Human Skin From University Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Harvard University has announced it will remove a book made from human skin from its Houghton library.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/statement-des-destinees-de-lame\">press release<\/a>, Harvard said the book Des Destin\u00e9es de l\u2019Ame, which has reportedly been in its library since the 1930s, will be removed from its shelves.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Ivy League university, the book\u2019s first owner was French physician Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who crafted the book with skin from a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>\u201cHarvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Ars\u00e8ne Houssaye\u2019s book Des destin\u00e9es de l\u2019\u00e2me (1880s), held at Houghton Library. The volume\u2019s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839\u20131933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially placed on deposit by John B. Stetson, Jr. (1884\u20131952), an American diplomat, businessman, and Harvard alumnus (AB 1906), and later through donation by his widow Ruby F. Stetson to Houghton Library in 1954,\u201d Harvard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe removal of the human skin from Des destin\u00e9es de l\u2019\u00e2me follows a review by Houghton Library of the book\u2019s stewardship, prompted by the recommendations of the Report of the Harvard University Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections issued in fall 2022. 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\u2019s binding no longer belong in the Harvard Library collections, due to the ethically fraught nature of the book\u2019s origins and subsequent history,\u201d the university continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/harvard-removes-book-crafted-with-human-skin-from-university-library\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University has announced it will remove a book made from human skin from its Houghton library. In a\u00a0press release, Harvard said the book Des Destin\u00e9es de l\u2019Ame, which has reportedly been in its library since the 1930s, will be removed from its shelves. According to\u00a0Ivy League university, the book\u2019s first owner was French physician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}