Ars Medica: a spiffy medical arts humanities journal. You'd like it.

It's all that.

Ars Medica, or The Ars, as British hipsters call it, is a fascinating "literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art." It's run out of Toronto, begun by a group of doctors (one of them my cousin), and really tip-top. So far they've had three issues, each with an eclectic mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art. I don't know their future plans, but for the websites claims, so I don't know what the next issue looks like. But the first issue looked like this:

All I'm saying is, this is a nice middle ground for cultured, scientifically inclined, artistically oriented, humanities interested folks to leaf through on a Saturday afternoon.

All they're saying is this: Ars Medica is "a place for dialogue, meaning making, and the representation of experiences of the body, health, wellness, and encounters with the medical system. Content will include narratives from patients and health care workers, medical history, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art."

So noted.