Introduction : there's more to crying than meets the ear / Barry M. Lester -- The Physiology of cry and speech in relation to linguistic behavior / Philip Lieberman -- A Physioacoustic model of the infant cry / Howard L. Golub and Michael J. Corwin -- Twenty-five years of Scandinavian cry research / Ole Wasz-H.
Developmental perspective of infant crying / Philip Sanford Zeskind -- Perception of infant crying as an interprsonal event / C.F. Zachariah Boukydis -- Aversiveness is in the mind of the beholder : perception of infant crying by adults / Ann D. Murray -- Physiology and behavior : Parents' response to the infant cry / Wilberta L. Donovan and Lewis A. Leavitt -- When emphathy fails : aversive infant crying and child abuse / Ann Frodi -- A Comparative model of infant cry / Jennifer S. Buchwald and Carl Shipley -- The Infant cry of primates : an evolutionary perspective / John D. Newman -- Application of cry research to clinical perspectives / T. Berry Brazelton -- Crying : a clinical overview / Martin Bax -- Epilogue / Peter H. Wolff.