Overview
- Editors:
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Barry M. Lester
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The Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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C. F. Zachariah Boukydis
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The Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii
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- Howard L. Golub, Michael J. Corwin
Pages 59-82
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- Ole Wasz-Höckert, Katarina Michelsson, John Lind
Pages 83-104
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- Carl-Johan Thodén, Anna-Liisa Järvenpää, Katarina Michelsson
Pages 105-117
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- Raymond H. Colton, Alfred Steinschneider, Lois Black, John Gleason
Pages 119-137
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- Peter F. Ostwald, Thomas Murry
Pages 139-158
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- Wilberta L. Donovan, Lewis A. Leavitt
Pages 241-261
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- Jennifer S. Buchwald, Carl Shipley
Pages 279-305
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Back Matter
Pages 355-375
About this book
The cries of infants and children are familiar to essentially all adults, and we all have our own common sense notions of the meanings of various cries at each age level. As is often the case, in the study of various aspects ofhuman behavior we often investigate what seems self evident to the general public. For example,if an infant cries, he or she needs atttention;if the cry is different than usual, he or she is sick; and when we areupsetby othermatters, children's crying can be very annoy ing. As a pediatric clinician often faced with discussing with parents their concerns or lack of them with respect to their children's crying, these usual commonsense interpretations were frequently inadequate. As this book illustrates, when we investigate such everyday behaviors as children's crying and adults' responses to crying, the nature of the problem becomes surprisingly complex. As a pediatrician working in the newborn nursery early in my career, I knew from pediatric textbooks and from nursery nurses, that newborn infants with high, piercing cries were often abnormal. In order to teach this interestingphenomenon to others and tounderstand under what circumstances it occurred, I found I needed to know what consti tuted a high-pitched cry or even a normal cry, for that matter, and how often this occurred with sick infants. Certainly I saw sick infants who did not have high-pitched cries, but I still wonderedif their cries were deviant in some other way.
