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Biography

Director, Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program
Associate Professor, Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program
Co-Director, Scholarly Concentration in Medical Humanities, IU School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Co-Founder, Build Community Give Care (BCGC)

Education

• DMH, Drew University 2006
• MA, Health Humanities, 2002
• BA, Biology, 1999

Teaching

• MHHS M501 The Human Condition
• MHHS M420/520 The Culture of Mental Illness
• MHHS M410/510 Addiction Narratives
• MHHS M492/592 Finding Frankenstein
• MHHS M492/592 Narrative Medicine
• MHHS M301 Perspectives on Health, Disease and Healing
• MHHS M201 Introduction to Medical Humanities
• MHHS M495 MHHS Capstone
• MHHS M595 Graduate Practicum
• IUSM Elective Narrative Medicine
• IUSM Introduction to Medical Humanities
• IUSM Medicine and the Humanities: Examining the Human Condition

Publications

Refereed

• Beckman, E.S. Keywords for Health Humanities, edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald. New York: New York University Press, 2023. J Med Humanit (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-024-09844-2
• Beckman, Emily S. and Angeline Larimer. “Medical Student as Playwright: Dramatizing Imelda.” Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Fall 2022.
  https://www.theintima.org/medical-student-as-playwright-dramatizing-imelda-beckman-larimer
• Beckman, Emily S., Katharine Head and Anna Maria Gramelspacher. “You will have changed profoundly”: A Letter Writing Exercise for 4th Year Medical Students.” Research and Humanities in Medical Education, vol. 9, 2022, p. 31-39.
  https://www.rhime.in/ojs/index.php/rhime/article/view/534.
• *Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Beckman, and Modupe Labode. “Surprise and Nostalgia: Staff Narrate the Closure of Central State Hospital.” Faith in Reform edited collection, Rob Ellis, Jennifer Wallis, and Rebecca Wynter, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
• Beckman, Emily S. and Chad Childers. “An Essential Hospice Experience Course for Preclinical Students.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 63 no. 4, 2020, p. 632-643. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/pbm.2020.0052.
• Emily Beckman, Elizabeth Nelson, and Modupe Labode, “Voices from the Newspaper Club: Patient Life at a State Psychiatric Hospital (1988-1992),” Journal of Medical Humanities (May 2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09617-7
• Beckman, Emily, Modupe Labode and Elizabeth Nelson. “I Like My Job because It Will Get Me Out Quicker”: Attitudes Toward Work Among Developmentally Disabled Patients at Indiana’s Central State Hospital (1986-1993).” Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series: Voices in the History of Madness: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Mental Health and Illness, edited by Robert Ellis, Sarah Kendal, Taylor J. Steven, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-69559-0.
• Hartsock, Jane, & Emily S. Beckman. “A Human Paradox: The Nazi Legacy of Pernkopf’s Atlas.” Conatus – Journal of Philosophy [Online], 4.2 (2019): 317-339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.21076.
• Beckman, Emily S et al. “The content of hope in ambulatory patients with colon cancer.” Narrative inquiry in bioethics vol. 3,2 (2013): 153-64. doi:10.1353/nib.2013.0031
• Gunderman, Richard B, and Emily S Beckman. “Confidentiality: an essential element of professionalism.” AJR. American journal of roentgenology vol. 199,6 (2012): W683-5. doi:10.2214/AJR.11.8344

Scholarly Online Writing

• Silverman, Ross, Head, Katharine, Beckman, Emily. “From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors.” Bill of Health, The Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law, December 15, 2020, https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/12/15/covid-vaccines-metaphors-warp-speed/.
• Nelson, Elizabeth, Beckman, Emily, Labode, Modupe. ““The Sex Lady Talks”: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s Institution.” Nursing Clio, August 11, 2020, https://nursingclio.org/2020/08/11/the-sex-lady-talks-disability-rights-and-the-normalization-of-sex-in-a-1980s-institution/.

Academic Interests

Addressing global health disparities through palliative care education in Africa.
Literature and medicine; empathy in medical education and practice; medicine in film; human sexuality; hope/end-of-life; Central State Hospital and the history of institutionalization in Indiana