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 but not petrified in its organ-ization. The cancerous "BwO" is caught in a pattern of endless reproduction of the self-same pattern. They give a rough recipe for building yourself a healthy BwO: Deleuze and Guattari suggest restraint here, writing that drug addicts and masochists may come closer to truly possessing bodies without organs—and die as a result. The 'healthy BwO' thus envisions the actual body without organs as a horizon, not a goal. Body without organs The "body without organs" () is a concept used by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. It usually refers to the deeper reality underlying some well-formed