Nephrology organization representing patients and professionals who treat kidney diseases. Founded in 1966, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is the world’s largest professional society devoted to the study of kidney disease. The American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA), founded in 1969, promotes excellence in and appreciation of nephrology nursing to make a positive difference for patients with kidney disease. The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) is a non-profit, patient-centric group focused on improving the health and well-being of CKD and dialysis patients. The National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA), founded in 1977, is a national organization that represents and supports the
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