SIU Med School Sponsors Annual Pearson Medical History Lecture

 The medical and psychological impact of injuries on Civil War veterans is the topic for the eleventh annual Emmet F. Pearson Memorial Medical History Lecture at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. The free, public lecture is at 6 p.m. Thursday, August 10, in SIU's South Auditorium (second floor), 801 N. Rutledge St. in Springfield.

"Those Arms Were Not Lost in Vain: Union soldiers and the Price of Freedom" will be presented by Dr. Stephen A. Goldman. He will examine how the Civil War combat experience affected anxiety and mood syndromes of servicemen as well as how they positively viewed their service to the nation.

Goldman is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., international consultant specializing in medical safety and president of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table.

Dr. Emmet F. Pearson, who is memorialized by the lecture, was a Springfield physician who was also a professor emeritus in the internal medicine and medical humanities departments at SIU. He died in June 1996. The medical museum at SIU is named in his honor.

For more information, call SIU's medical humanities department, 545-4261 weekdays.

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