pathography

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A biography by a physician exploring the effects a disease may have had on a person's life
A biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life
A style of biography that overemphasizes the negative aspects of a person's life and work, such as failure, unhappiness, illness, and tragedy. “ [It] falls into pathography's technique of emphasizing the sensational underside of its subject's life” (Joyce Carol Oates)
The retrospective study, often by a physician, of the possible influence and effects of disease on the life and work of a historical personage or group