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Diagnosis: Broken Healthcare

An analytical project on the body as an administrative anomaly.

When the body fails to function according to established norms, it becomes a problem for systems. Pain, fatigue, illness and disability do not lend themselves easily to standardisation, yet the institutions of the welfare state are built precisely around standardisation. This project examines what happens at the intersection of lived bodily experience and institutional rationality.

Diagnosis: Broken Healthcare focuses on how the body is reduced to a case, a deviation or a cost, and how subjective experience is systematically subordinated to measurability, evidence and administrative criteria. The project moves beyond healthcare criticism in the narrow sense and places the body within a broader context of governance, norms and power.

The analyses explore how legitimacy is granted and denied, how some bodies are regarded as credible while others are treated with suspicion, and how individuals are expected to adapt to the language of the system rather than the other way around. The body is understood not merely as a biological fact, but as a political and institutional reality.

The project investigates what it means to be human within systems that are not designed for human variation, and the consequences that follow when experience no longer counts as a form of knowledge.