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The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers
Pain is an unpleasant experience that we will all experience in some form over the course of our lives, with chronic pain affecting a significant proportion of the global population. Given these circumstances, this study investigates whether pain is a legitimated phenomenon and considers the process...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10651017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37967079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291112 |
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author | García-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Biedma-Velázquez, Lourdes Serrano-Del-Rosal, Rafael |
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description | Pain is an unpleasant experience that we will all experience in some form over the course of our lives, with chronic pain affecting a significant proportion of the global population. Given these circumstances, this study investigates whether pain is a legitimated phenomenon and considers the processes involved in the creation of such a status. This is an exploratory investigation based on semi-structured interviews with people suffering from chronic pain as a consequence of physical, psychological, emotional, or social circumstances. Our principal objective is to explore the fundamental elements of legitimacy and the processes that bring it into being—i.e., to understand how it is socially constructed. The main finding, however, is that many sufferers of chronic physical, psychiatric/psychological, emotional and social pain perceive that their pain is not considered legitimate when no clear cause can be identified, when the pain prevents them from developing the norms imposed by social roles or when it inhibits them to make a productive contribution to the society in which they live. This is generally due to the disruptive aspect of pain and its impact on the social structure, specifically on productivity, which nowadays constitutes a key element in the legitimation of any social phenomenon. |
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spelling | pubmed-106510172023-11-15 The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers García-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Biedma-Velázquez, Lourdes Serrano-Del-Rosal, Rafael PLoS One Research Article Pain is an unpleasant experience that we will all experience in some form over the course of our lives, with chronic pain affecting a significant proportion of the global population. Given these circumstances, this study investigates whether pain is a legitimated phenomenon and considers the processes involved in the creation of such a status. This is an exploratory investigation based on semi-structured interviews with people suffering from chronic pain as a consequence of physical, psychological, emotional, or social circumstances. Our principal objective is to explore the fundamental elements of legitimacy and the processes that bring it into being—i.e., to understand how it is socially constructed. The main finding, however, is that many sufferers of chronic physical, psychiatric/psychological, emotional and social pain perceive that their pain is not considered legitimate when no clear cause can be identified, when the pain prevents them from developing the norms imposed by social roles or when it inhibits them to make a productive contribution to the society in which they live. This is generally due to the disruptive aspect of pain and its impact on the social structure, specifically on productivity, which nowadays constitutes a key element in the legitimation of any social phenomenon. Public Library of Science 2023-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10651017/ /pubmed/37967079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291112 Text en © 2023 García-Rodríguez et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article García-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Biedma-Velázquez, Lourdes Serrano-Del-Rosal, Rafael The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title | The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title_full | The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title_fullStr | The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title_full_unstemmed | The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title_short | The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
title_sort | legitimacy of pain according to sufferers |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10651017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37967079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291112 |
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