Clinical screening manuals are easy to underestimate when you first buy them. They can look like narrow procedural texts for one class. In practice, books like this often become more useful later, when students need to review sequences, observation steps, and screening logic before lab, fieldwork, or clinic-oriented exams. For ISBN 9781569004661, the real question is not just price. It is whether you want the cheapest short-term access or a neurologic-screening manual worth keeping.

If you only need the buying answer

The cheapest route in the visible market is used print at about $84.50. The current new print listing is $106.10, which is still lower than the sampled new market at about $142.46, but clearly higher than short rental at $51.25. That makes this a split case: rental wins if you only need brief access, while print is still reasonable if you want a clean copy for later clinical reuse.

Price comparison

Store	Format	Condition	Price	Link
Merybook	Paperback	New	$106.10	Check price
CampusBooks	Print	Used	$84.50	Check used market
Bookstores.com	Hardcover	Used	$101.29	Check used market
Short rental	Rental	Temporary access	$51.25	Check rental option
New print market	Print	New	$142.46	Check new market

What this price means in practice

This is not a case where the current print listing is the cheapest way to touch the book. Rental and used copies are both lower. What the current listing does offer is a cleaner ownership route than much of the broader new market. That matters only if you expect the manual to stay useful after the course.

For a procedural rehab text, that can be a real consideration. Students often discover they want a stable copy when neurologic screening becomes part of practical review instead of just assigned reading.

What this book actually teaches

Screening Adult Neurologic Populations: A Step-by-step Instruction Manual is valuable because it organizes neurologic screening into sequences students can actually perform. Its usefulness comes from stepwise observation, clinical flow, and the logic behind what to notice and why it matters. That is a different kind of value from a broad textbook.

Because of that, the book behaves more like a clinic-prep manual than a one-pass reading assignment. If you expect to revisit screening procedures in occupational therapy, rehab, or neurologic fieldwork, ownership becomes easier to justify.

Who should rent, and who should buy print

Rent if the goal is only to get through one short instructional window at the lowest cost.

Buy print if you want a clean retained manual for later fieldwork, lab review, or clinic preparation. Otherwise, the cheaper used or rental routes are financially stronger.

Sources checked

Sources checked: Merybook listing search for ISBN 9781569004661, CampusBooks and Bookstores.com used pricing, rental pricing, and sampled new-print pricing. Pricing reviewed April 19, 2026.