Subtitled, 'Basic Clinical Skills for Students and Practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine,' this is a timely re-issue of a manual first published in 1994, that seeks to enhance and illuminate the basic clinical skills of listening, looking and feeling, in a way that is relevant to the needs of the complementary practitioner. As such, it is not an orthodox textbook but a means through which knowledge can be broadened and practical skills developed and honed. 
Given how much information can be given when case-taking, this book sets out to provide a template for a basic set of essential questions to ask a patient and to teach both students and practitioners where to put their hands if they need to carry out any kind of physical examination. There are also checklists and step-by-step illustrations which are invaluable.