1. Partner to the late Michel Foucault, Defert co-founded France's first AIDS advocacy group, AIDES, following Foucault's death from complications related to the disease.
10 Facts About Daniel Defert
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Daniel Defert graduated from the Ecole normale superieure de Saint-Cloud.
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Daniel Defert met Foucault while he was a philosophy student at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France and their relationship lasted from 1963 until Foucault's death in 1984.
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Daniel Defert served as president of AIDES from 1984 to 1991.
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Daniel Defert was a member of the scientific committee for human sciences of the International Conference on AIDS ; member of the World Commission for AIDS ; member of the National Committee for AIDS, of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition of Harvard University, and of the French Haut Comite de la Sante Publique.
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Daniel Defert was the author of numerous articles in the domain of ethno-iconography and public health.
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Daniel Defert was awarded the decoration of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and received the Alexander Onassis prize for the creation of AIDES in 1998.
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Daniel Defert co-edited, with Francois Ewald, volume 4 of Dits et Ecrits of Michel Foucault, a posthumous collection of Foucault's writing.
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Daniel Defert explained the decision that after the material became available to researchers with the credentials to acquire a reader card at the national library, Daniel Defert and others close to Foucault felt that access should be either available "to everyone or no one".
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Daniel Defert died in Paris on 7 February 2023, at the age of 85.