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@article{ Richardson2005,
 title = {Establishing the (extra)ordinary in chronic widespread pain},
 author = {Richardson, Jane C.},
 journal = {Health},
 number = {1},
 pages = {31-48},
 volume = {9},
 year = {2005},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459305048096},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-225849},
 abstract = {Sufferers of chronic illness face delegitimation of their condition and threats to                their identities. One way of establishing the legitimacy of their position is for                sufferers of chronic illness to emphasize the ‘ordinary’ in                their accounts. Sufferers of conditions which are chronic, invisible and contested,                such as chronic widespread pain, have the same, and possibly greater, need to                legitimize their condition and refute allegations of                ‘malingering’ or psychological instability. The article uses                interviews with women with chronic widespread pain to illustrate the ways in which                the invisible, subjective and everyday nature of chronic pain leads to sufferers                experiencing delegitimation of their condition. It suggests that the accounts of                women suffering from chronic widespread pain are constructed to portray a positive                identity in the face of this experience, particularly through the emphasis on the ‘extraordinary’.},
}