The Examined Life Journal began in the Fall of 2010 when a group of physicians who were also writers approached the director of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Writing and Humanities Program with the idea for starting a journal that explored the confluence of art and medicine ... After a couple brief meetings it was settled: The journal would publish its first issue in conjunction with the Examined Life Conference in the spring of 2011, and twice a year thereafter -- publisher's Web site.
Numbering
Only one number published in 2016 and 2017 but called vol. 5, no. 1 and vol. 5, no. 2. Beginning with vol. 6 (2018) will be annual.
Note
Vol. 1, no. 3 (spring 2012); title from title page.