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Vol. 73, No. 2, February 1993, pp. 100-101
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Katherine F Shepard, Gail M Jensen, Beverly J Schmoll, Laurita M Hack and Janet Gwyer

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

We wish to express our gratitude to Dr Mattingly for adding increased depth and understanding to both the philosophical and practical issues raised in our article. We have been grappling with these issues both among ourselves and with our colleagues who have served as manuscript reviewers for this paper for the past 3 years. This "grappling" has not been an easy process. This paper has been rewritten many times both to reflect our changing views and to respond to reviewer criticism. Responding to reviewer concerns was a laborious task because physical therapy researchers/reviewers are well seeped in positivistic traditions but have little formal or informal knowledge of research carried out from the phenomenological perspective. As one example, a reviewer argued against our use of the term "thick description" (which Mattingly explains further) because the reviewer perceived it as sarcasm....


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