pathographer

Example Sentences

• "Thus it becomes understandable that this champion of compassion is described as an obstinate, violent, distrustful man, quick to condemn; even by his pathographer, Moebius, who loved him personally."
• "The pathographer, by contrast, seeks to discredit the very idea of greatness"
• "He maintains that, in contrast to "biographers who are fixated upon their heroes", the pathographer has outgrown the omnipotent, infantile wish to idealise his subject and can proceed to unearth the truth."
• "The pathographer does not just record his or her suffering and patienthood: the pathographer forces that medical understanding of the body as a biological entity into conflict with another understanding, or, to put it in another way, assays to read that biomedical knowledge through another form of knowledge."
• "The contingent and complex nature of illness, disability, and pain makes the unified self a metaphysical delusion, yet one that the pathographer apparently cannot relinquish if he or she is to recover some modicum of normative ontological constancy."
• "The report of the pathographer confirms the theories of the scholar. So Peter Noll, diagnosed as having cancer of the bladder, defends his decision to reject surgical intervention: "I don't want to get caught in the surgical-urological-radiological machine because then I'll lose my freedom piecemeal, my will will be broken as hope diminishes, and I'll end up one way or another in the well-known death room that everyone skirts.""