Between passion and repression: medical views of demon dreams, demonic fetuses, and female sexual madness in late imperial China.

This article argues that early Chinese physicians had already related female ailments to their sexual frustration. Moreover, many physicians paid more attention to non-reproductive women ­ nuns, widows, and unmarried women ­ as if they were more prone to suffer from unfulfilled desires and sexual frustration and, as a result, produce the sexual dreams and monstrous births that were described in the medical literature of medieval China as physical ailments. The earlier body-oriented etiology of these female illnesses gradually shifted to emotion-oriented perspectives in late imperial China. In particular, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century doctors began to categorize women's sexual frustration as "yu disorders" or "love madness." In this article I will show not only the changing medical views of female sexual madness throughout the ages, but how these views were shaped by the societies in which both the doctors and patients were situated.

Social participation for children with developmental coordination disorder: conceptual, evaluation and intervention considerations.

Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often have limited participation in social activities, causing isolation, anxiety, emotional and social problems in children themselves and their families. This paper reviews studies that investigated participation in activities of children with DCD in home, community and school. Assessments to evaluate social participation of children with DCD, intervention, strategies and future research considerations for children with DCD are suggested.