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the Enfield geography: a township of the bodily damaged

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it is a township composed almost entirely of medical, corporate, and spiritual facilities. [...] the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation, the Dr. George Roebling Runyon Memorial Institute for Podiatric Research

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E.T.A. sits inside a township "composed almost entirely of medical, corporate, and spiritual facilities" — among them "Hanneman Orthopedic Hospital," "the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation," and a "Memorial Institute for Podiatric Research." The academy that stresses growing skeletons, wrecks ankles, and erodes rotator cuffs is embedded in a neighborhood of orthopedic wards, pain foundations, and foot-research institutes — the downstream infrastructure of bodily damage the regimen keeps supplying. The geography is the argument: the body-factory on the hill overlooks the repair-shops that receive its casualties.

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