The present paper addresses the scientific reliability and investigates the deployment - actually, more a logical then a chronologic one - of the arguments - ethical, juridical and economical - adopted to sustain, assess and support the dissemination of the diversity policies within the...

In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in Britain. Initiated at the beginning of the 1980s, the Incapacity Benefit (IB) social welfare system perceived and treated these recipients as « disabled adults ». This...