Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 141A
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Emily S. Beckman
- Director, Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program
- Assistant 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
Education
DMH, Drew University 2006
MA, Health Humanities, 2002
BA, Biology, 1999
Academic interests
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
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, 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/.