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Paul-Michel Foucault was born on 15 October 1926 in the city of Poitiers, west-central France, ... Foucault initially referred to AIDS as a "dreamed-up disease". [164]
Daniel Defert (10 September 1937 – 7 February 2023) was a French sociologist and HIV/AIDS activist. 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. Defert was the heir to Foucault's estate.
AIDES [1] is a French community-based non-profit organisation that was founded in 1984 by Daniel Defert, following the death, from HIV/AIDS, of his partner Michel Foucault. The name is a play on "aides" (French for "help") and the English acronym "AIDS".
June 25 - French philosopher Michel Foucault dies of AIDS in Paris. Following his death, AIDES was founded. September 6 - First performance at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco of The AIDS Show which runs for two years and is the subject of a 1986 documentary film of the same name.
The Lives of Michel Foucault is a 1993 biography of French philosopher Michel Foucault by David Macey. Bibliography. Collins, Stephen L. (1994). "Review of The ...
Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable to assume that a minor is incapable of giving meaningful consent to sexual relations. [3] Foucault also believed consent, as a concept, was a "contractual notion", and that it was not a sufficient measure of whether harm was being conducted. [ 2 ]
[1] [2] [3] The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. [4] He was a close friend and lover of Michel Foucault.
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice is a printed text version of the series of lectures delivered at the Catholic University of Louvain by Michel Foucault from early April to late May 1981.