TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflecting on the pathography
AU - Chambers, Tod
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This essay looks at the liminal genre of the critical pathography, a literary form that bridges the boundary between an academic analysis and an illness nar-rative. It argues that when this genre is compared to more traditional forms of analysis in the medical humanities and bioethics, the critical pathography treats its subject in a manner that is more akin to what Gabriel Marcel refers to as a mystery, something that can only be explored, than to a problem, a puzzle that can be solved.
AB - This essay looks at the liminal genre of the critical pathography, a literary form that bridges the boundary between an academic analysis and an illness nar-rative. It argues that when this genre is compared to more traditional forms of analysis in the medical humanities and bioethics, the critical pathography treats its subject in a manner that is more akin to what Gabriel Marcel refers to as a mystery, something that can only be explored, than to a problem, a puzzle that can be solved.
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U2 - 10.1353/pbm.2020.0057
DO - 10.1353/pbm.2020.0057
M3 - Article
C2 - 33416807
AN - SCOPUS:85099688693
VL - 63
SP - 708
EP - 717
JO - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
JF - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
SN - 0031-5982
IS - 4
ER -