John P. Merrill John P. Merrill John Putnam Merrill (March 10, 1917 – April 14, 1984) was an American physician and medical researcher. He led the team which performed the world's first successful kidney transplant. He generally credited as the "father of nephrology" or "the founder of nephrology," which is the scientific study of the kidney and its diseases. Merrill was born in 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1938, he attended the Harvard Medical School. He graduated in 1942; and he was an intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. During World War II, he served for four
Body without organs the term took on an expanded meaning, referring variously to literal bodies and to a certain perspective on realities of any type. The term's overloaded meaning is provocative, perhaps intentionally. The term originates from Antonin Artaud's radio play "To Have Done with the Judgment of God" (1947): When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom. Deleuze first mentions the phrase in a chapter of "The Logic of Sense" called "The Schizophrenic and the Little Girl", which contrasts two distinct and