In response to Malinski's Research Issues column titled Developing a Nursing Perspective on Spirituality and Healing, Wojnar wrote a letter to the editor raising thoughtful questions that led to a series of e-mail exchanges with the author. The letter and the dialogue generated are reproduced here.
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