ABSTRACT
A primary goal of rehabilitation is to maximize an individual’s function. At various times during the rehabilitation process, a variety of means are used to help improve an individual’s functional status, such as optimizing nutrition, psychological interventions, medications, and surgical procedures. Although the development of the discipline of sports ethics has been substantial over the past 25 years, the issues raised by athletes with impairments has only more recently come into focus. The world of medical technology, from prosthetic development to novel surgery, may raise as many prospects for good as it does for harm. In this chapter, the author have suggested ethical and policy responses to these that are not difficult to conceptualize or to implement. Moreover, of social practices that are voluntarily engaged in, athletes may be compelled in various ways to conform to agreed norms. The author argues that the mode of entry into disability is a relevant criterion to prohibit amputation on demand for would-be athletes.
