Observations on

Care as Infrastructure

6 observations

My grandma knew

System: Medical knowledge systems and women’s embodied observations

The system treats unmeasured experience as absence of evidence, so women’s recurring bodily observations become anomalies instead of research questions.

Invisible Expertise

System: Children Hospital Appointment in Ireland

The system assumes that care ends at discharge, and that follow-up will happen without active coordination from the parent.

Care Discontinuity, Infrastructure Stratification, Institutional Amnesia