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Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/arts/harvard-human-skin-binding-book.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f00.21gD.Hx4sJ1Mer1SA&smid=url-share

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Photo of the book in question prior to the removal of the binding:

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For the curious, this is what it actually looks like:

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  • zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was bad for the library to use this book as a cheap and vulgar communication tool. It’s better to destroy it as they did but I’m not comfortable with this idea either. The best solution IMHO would have been to keep it, to preserve it, but to stop using it for anything but research.

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