Kevin Mintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6589409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintz |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3101-3106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Should I have to pay to work? On responsibility for the cost of disability accommodations
As someone with moderate cerebral palsy, I have lived a life defined by hard work.Throughout my professional journey as a disabled academic, I have been forced to ask myself the question: should I have to pay to work?It has never been easy to answer, but when push comes to shove I have always prioritized investing in whatever was necessary to guarantee my professional success.At age 36, though, I am growing tired of having to pay to work.I hold d…
Nothing about Us without Us in Precision Medicine: A Call to Reframe Disability Difference in Genetics and Genomics
Sixty‐one million Americans and approximately a billion people worldwide live with some form of disability that limits one or more major life activities. The field of precision medicine continues to grapple with how to best serve disability communities. In this paper, we suggest that precision medicine faces an ethical tension between its goal to treat or cure disabling conditions and views that consider disability as a marginalized identity. We …
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice
Home care is one of the fastest‐growing industries in the United States, providing valuable opportunities for millions of older adults and people with disabilities to live at home rather than in institutional settings. Home care workers assist clients with essential activities of daily living, but their wages and working conditions generally fail to reflect the importance of their work. Drawing on the work of Eva Feder Kittay and other care ethic…
Mask Mandates and Dilemmas of Disability Difference
A number of recent legal cases in the United States have considered both disability‐based exceptions to Covid‐19‐related mask mandates and disability‐based claims to stronger masking rules in states restricting the abilities of local governments to enforce mask mandates. We argue that a proper legal and ethical analysis of such cases requires understanding the distinction between disability accommodations and disability modifications. Disability …
Physical Disability and Psychedelic Therapies: An Agenda for Inclusive Research and Practice
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of clinical trials for psychedelic therapies as treatments for a wide range of psychiatric conditions. We are concerned that research organizations overseeing these trials have neglected the inclusion of individuals with physical and sensory disabilities. We suggest that psychedelic research organizations should prioritize and plan for the inclusion of individuals with physical and se…
Paying Attention to the Mouse Behind the Curtain: Dilemmas of Disability Justice in a Lawsuit against Disney
Is it possible that justice requires giving people with disabilities like autism sufficient opportunities to pursue a flourishing life by promoting accessibility at theme parks and other places of public accommodation? I explore this question by analyzing the ethical issues at play in a series of disability lawsuits against Disney Parks and Resorts. Drawing on the work of Martha Nussbaum and Chiara Cordelli, I argue that Disney has an obligation …
Caring for People with Disabilities: An Ethics of Respect
Eva Feder Kittay's Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds is poised to make a major contribution to the disability literature and is likely to spark controversy among disability scholars. The book's central contribution is the articulation of an ethics of care for meeting the “genuine needs” and “legitimate wants” of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We applaud Kittay, who is the mother of a woman with cerebr…
Kevin Mintz and David Wasserman Reply
“My blessed child does not need to know about that!”: How should sexual health educators confront the challenge of religious pluralism in working with individuals who have intellectual disabilities
Is Disney Disabling
This article discusses ongoing lawsuits against Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., brought by people with autism and their families. These lawsuits illuminate an ethical dilemma about the appropriate scope of disability equality. This article suggests that Disney and the courts have adopted a standard of simple equality where all theme park patrons are treated the same way, regardless of ability. I argue, however, that the standard of equality that s…
Ableism, ambiguity, and the Anna Stubblefield case
This article discusses the ongoing case of Anna Stubblefield, a former Rutgers University philosophy professor who was convicted of the sexual assault of an African American man with cerebral palsy. On appeal, the conviction was reversed, and as of this submission Stubblefield is awaiting news from the state of New Jersey Supreme Court as to whether there will be a retrial. This piece engages with Sherry’s article in this journal, and dissects th…
Ableism, ambiguity, and the Anna Stubblefield case
This article discusses the ongoing case of Anna Stubblefield, a former Rutgers University philosophy professor who was convicted of the sexual assault of an African American man with cerebral palsy. On appeal, the conviction was reversed, and as of this submission Stubblefield is awaiting news from the state of New Jersey Supreme Court as to whether there will be a retrial. This piece engages with Sherry’s article in this journal, and dissects th…
Ableism, ambiguity, and the Anna Stubblefield case
This article discusses the ongoing case of Anna Stubblefield, a former Rutgers University philosophy professor who was convicted of the sexual assault of an African American man with cerebral palsy. On appeal, the conviction was reversed, and as of this submission Stubblefield is awaiting news from the state of New Jersey Supreme Court as to whether there will be a retrial. This piece engages with Sherry’s article in this journal, and dissects th…
“My blessed child does not need to know about that!”: How should sexual health educators confront the challenge of religious pluralism in working with individuals who have intellectual disabilities
Is Disney Disabling
This article discusses ongoing lawsuits against Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., brought by people with autism and their families. These lawsuits illuminate an ethical dilemma about the appropriate scope of disability equality. This article suggests that Disney and the courts have adopted a standard of simple equality where all theme park patrons are treated the same way, regardless of ability. I argue, however, that the standard of equality that s…
Caring for People with Disabilities: An Ethics of Respect
Eva Feder Kittay's Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds is poised to make a major contribution to the disability literature and is likely to spark controversy among disability scholars. The book's central contribution is the articulation of an ethics of care for meeting the “genuine needs” and “legitimate wants” of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We applaud Kittay, who is the mother of a woman with cerebr…
Kevin Mintz and David Wasserman Reply
Paying Attention to the Mouse Behind the Curtain: Dilemmas of Disability Justice in a Lawsuit against Disney
Is it possible that justice requires giving people with disabilities like autism sufficient opportunities to pursue a flourishing life by promoting accessibility at theme parks and other places of public accommodation? I explore this question by analyzing the ethical issues at play in a series of disability lawsuits against Disney Parks and Resorts. Drawing on the work of Martha Nussbaum and Chiara Cordelli, I argue that Disney has an obligation …
Mask Mandates and Dilemmas of Disability Difference
A number of recent legal cases in the United States have considered both disability‐based exceptions to Covid‐19‐related mask mandates and disability‐based claims to stronger masking rules in states restricting the abilities of local governments to enforce mask mandates. We argue that a proper legal and ethical analysis of such cases requires understanding the distinction between disability accommodations and disability modifications. Disability …
Physical Disability and Psychedelic Therapies: An Agenda for Inclusive Research and Practice
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of clinical trials for psychedelic therapies as treatments for a wide range of psychiatric conditions. We are concerned that research organizations overseeing these trials have neglected the inclusion of individuals with physical and sensory disabilities. We suggest that psychedelic research organizations should prioritize and plan for the inclusion of individuals with physical and se…
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice
Home care is one of the fastest‐growing industries in the United States, providing valuable opportunities for millions of older adults and people with disabilities to live at home rather than in institutional settings. Home care workers assist clients with essential activities of daily living, but their wages and working conditions generally fail to reflect the importance of their work. Drawing on the work of Eva Feder Kittay and other care ethic…
Nothing about Us without Us in Precision Medicine: A Call to Reframe Disability Difference in Genetics and Genomics
Sixty‐one million Americans and approximately a billion people worldwide live with some form of disability that limits one or more major life activities. The field of precision medicine continues to grapple with how to best serve disability communities. In this paper, we suggest that precision medicine faces an ethical tension between its goal to treat or cure disabling conditions and views that consider disability as a marginalized identity. We …
Should I have to pay to work? On responsibility for the cost of disability accommodations
As someone with moderate cerebral palsy, I have lived a life defined by hard work.Throughout my professional journey as a disabled academic, I have been forced to ask myself the question: should I have to pay to work?It has never been easy to answer, but when push comes to shove I have always prioritized investing in whatever was necessary to guarantee my professional success.At age 36, though, I am growing tired of having to pay to work.I hold d…
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Ableism (2 works)