Sports Medicine

Question 1

Important caveats/assumptions when discussing injured players:

Answer 1

• all players are 18 or older
• all players have extensive knowledge about their injury from the sports doctor and wish to play anyway
• to stop the athlete from competing, the doctor would have to take action somehow
• predictions of harm are only probabilistic

Question 2

Anderson (2007) sport ethic (culture):

Answer 2

• sacrifice for the game
• strive for perfection
• do not shy away from pain and challenge
• anything is possible

Question 3

Soft paternalism:

Answer 3

the act or practice of preventing an action by another that is considered to be harmful to that person if that action is thought to be involuntary

Question 4

Hard paternalism:

Answer 4

an action to protect competent adults against their will, from the harmful consequences even of their voluntary choices and undertakings

Question 5

Look at cases.

Answer 5

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Question 6

What is sport medicine?

Answer 6

• do no harm?
• restoration of previous performance levels?
• relief of suffering?

Question 7

Category issue:

Answer 7

need to figure out which actions fall into the relieve suffering category and which ones fall into the increase performance category

Question 8

How can we solve the category problem?

Answer 8

create a new category

Question 9

____ ____, by themselves, cannot resolve the category issue.

Answer 9

ethical codes

Question 10

The category of _____ _____ works for both healing and enhancement purposes.

Answer 10

assistive technology