Tag: bleeding disorders

Notes from writing a character with a bleeding disorder

Nicole Hebdon Buffalo, New York, United States “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” –Ernest Hemingway. Photograph by Suzy Hazelwood. Taken from pexels.com I have read two books that feature characters with bleeding disorders. The first was a used paperback with a neon green and…

January 22, 2020
Public health measures derived from the Jewish tradition: III. The Bris: Jewish ritual circumcision and hemophilia

Matthew Migliozzi David Forstein Sarah Rindner Robert Stern New York City, New York, United States The circumcision of Isaac. The Regensburg Pentateuch, 1305, now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Historically, Jewish contributions to public health measures have not been given adequate attribution. The previous articles in this series have documented (1) the ancient Jewish…

December 20, 2017

Notes from writing a character with a bleeding disorder