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Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield.
The Best Book Covers of 2024 A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
By the time those findings emerged, the publisher of the anatomy book had stopped printing it. A stack of volumes of the Pernkopf atlas on a shelf in Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar's UCLA office.
Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar wants to surpass the anatomical atlas created by a fervent supporter of the Nazi regime whose work was fueled by the dead bodies of its victims.
For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
Harvard University announced it would remove a binding made of the skin of a deceased woman from the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” which they house in their library.
AI-generated book covers are becoming a big nuisance for both artists and the publishing world in general.
Testimony by former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady is a case study of how corruption allegations against Joe Biden and his family were covered up by the FBI and DOJ — before and after the ...
In a year brimming with beautiful jacket art, these books stood out. Credit... Supported by By Matt Dorfman Matt Dorfman is a designer, illustrator and the art director of the Book Review. If an ...
Within days of its release Rana Ayyub’s self published book, ‘ Gujarat Files-Anatomy of a cover up’ is a major sensation. I cannot recall another book; leave alone a self published book which has ...
On a daytrip to Providence during fly-out week, I stumbled across an unusual and startling artifact on display at Brown University's John Hay Library - an anatomy book bound in human skin. While such ...