Harvard has a new problem: disposing of a human skin book binding

• Harvard's library removed a human skin binding from a book in its collection.
• The book has been in Harvard's library since 1934.
• The book is said to be bound with the skin of a deceased psychiatric patient.

Harvard's library said the human skin binding on one of its books was finally removed after nearly a century.

The copy of the French book "Des destinées de l'âme" was bound with skin taken from the dead body of a female patient at a psychiatric hospital, according to a Q&A.