
The Hide That Binds
A medical librarian’s history of books covered in human skin.
Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by Megan Rosenbloom
November 5, 2020 issue
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Mike Jay’s books include Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond, and, most recently, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. (November 2020)
The Hide That Binds
A medical librarian’s history of books covered in human skin.
Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by Megan Rosenbloom
November 5, 2020 issue
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