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 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine
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
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