https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal <p><em>Ars Medica</em>&nbsp;is a biannual literary journal, started in 2004, that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art. <em>Ars Medica</em> remains one of a handful of medical literary journals in Canada and worldwide, in the rapidly developing international field of the humanities in healthcare.</p> <p><em>Ars Medica</em>&nbsp;allows a place for dialogue, meaning-making, and the representation of experiences of the body, health, wellness, and encounters with the medical system. Content includes narratives from patients and health care workers, medical history, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We also include sections on writing by and about children, and writing about international health. These are voices that are often silenced in healthcare.</p> Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing Press en-US Ars Medica https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2361 <p>Music is everywhere around us, waiting for us to notice. The sounds of the hospital are like a fugue, a musical form involving multiple interwoven melodies.&nbsp;</p> Jenny Li Copyright (c) 2024 Ars Medica 2024-06-04 2024-06-04 18 1 https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2247 Suze Berkhout Kelly Fritsch Chloe Wong-Mersereau Copyright (c) 2023 Ars Medica 2023-11-24 2023-11-24 18 1 10 pp 10 pp https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2243 <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dear Angelo&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">By LJ Prance&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Edited by Fraser Allen Best&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">"Dear Angelo" is one of many stories of my transplant trip. I like to think of it as a conversation I may have had with my donor.&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I chose the name "Angelo" as both a metaphor and a homage to a friend.&nbsp;</div> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">- dhanyavaad&nbsp;</div> LJ Prance Copyright (c) 2023 Ars Medica 2023-11-24 2023-11-24 18 1 1 p 1 p https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2229 <p>A soundscape of a transplant hospital in Ontario, Canada.</p> Jonathan Kawchuk Suze Berkhout Copyright (c) 2023 Ars Medica 2023-11-24 2023-11-24 18 1 5 pp 5 pp https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2221 <p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;">A case history of a patient who died many years ago of Cystic Fibrosis and a doub;e lung transplant</span></span></p> Michael Diamond Copyright (c) 2023 Ars Medica 2023-11-24 2023-11-24 18 1