Pathography
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| # A [[biography]] that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life. | # A [[biography]] that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life. | ||
| # A [[biography]] by a physician exploring the effects a disease may have had on a person's life. | # A [[biography]] by a physician exploring the effects a disease may have had on a person's life. | ||
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| + | "They are not so much biography, as, if we may be allowed to coin a word, pathography," wrote someone in 1852. | ||
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| [[Joyce Carol Oates]] called [[warts-and-all]] [[biographer]]s ''[[pathographer]]s''. | [[Joyce Carol Oates]] called [[warts-and-all]] [[biographer]]s ''[[pathographer]]s''. | ||
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- A biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life.
- A biography by a physician exploring the effects a disease may have had on a person's life.
"They are not so much biography, as, if we may be allowed to coin a word, pathography," wrote someone in 1852.
Joyce Carol Oates called warts-and-all biographers pathographers.
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