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pathography pa·thog·ra·phy P0111800 (pă-thŏg′rə-fē)n.1. 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.2. 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).pathography (pəˈθɒɡrəfɪ) n, pl -phies1. (Medicine) a description of disease2. (Medicine) a historical study of an individual or community and the incidence and effects of (a) disease3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a biography that focuses on the negative aspects of its subjectpa•thog•ra•phy (pəˈθɒg rə fi)
n. a biography that focuses on the negative elements of its subject. [1985–90; popularized in this sense by J.C. Oates, U.S. writer]
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