IU School of Liberal Arts associate professor and director of the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program, Emily Beckman is using artificial intelligence and literary fiction to help students understand the human experience of addiction from the perspectives of characters in fiction.
At the forefront of medicine, IU Indianapolis was one of the first universities in the country to offer a medical humanities program, where today, Beckman’s dedication to helping tomorrow’s medical professionals foster better relationships with their patients by implementing the humanities into their scientific and clinical studies is on full display in a course called Addiction Narratives.