Briskly written and mostly even-handed, the book avoids both hagiography and
pathography. Succeeding as both intellectual history and political history, it gives due treatment of all of his major works, and generally assesses their impact correctly.
We aim to analyze here the recent pathographic critiques of medical authors about Nietzsche, not without presenting the first alternative genre previously mentioned and the
pathography resulting from the official diagnosis.
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Bedrich Smetana--a
pathography on the 180th anniversary of his birth and 120th anniversary of his death.
Part 2, "Performing Patients," includes: Emma Brodzinski, "The Patient Performer: Embodied
Pathography in Contemporary Productions" (85-98); Brian Lobel, "Fun with Cancer Patients: The Affect of Cancer" (99-114); P.
The Viral Network: A
Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
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"Jim Henson was such a beloved and tragic figure (he died at 53 of a strep infection) that I hesitated to open Brian Jay Jones's book for fear that it would be yet another '
pathography,' a term coined by Joyce Carol Oates to describe the account of a person who may be saintly on the surface but whose story is mainly one of dysfunction, disaster and outrageous conduct.
As MacDonald suggests, we can view the novel "as a
pathography, where the illness of those cared for is given testimony, with the reader acting as witness to trauma and loss" (2007: 76).