Pedicure on my toes, toes...

Okay everyone,
I have not yet started interviewing but will hopefully be able to get my first interview over the weekend or spring break at the latest. My roomate didn't end up going to College Station this weekend so couldn't ask her friend a/b it. However, I am starting to become engaged with the literature on the topic. One of the books that's going to be really helpful (misconceptions) by Naomi Wolf already gave me three other references in the intro, one of whom is an anthropologist on the topic, though from the context she was referenced in, not in the subject matter I am interested in. Having said that, I am also doing my research paper for my public policy class on an HIV/AIDS policy that was reinstated in 2008 to allocate 48 billion dollars internationally to combat the global aids epidemic. During my research, I came across something which I didn't consider. It is WHO regulations that each country have 2.3 doctors or nurses per 1000 people and in a chart that showed the number of doctors and nurses per 100,000 people, all countries on the chart had much higher rates of nurses than doctors, including the U.S, except the UK, Dijibouti, and Kenya. I would not have even considered this in part of my questioning if I had not come across this. Nurses are an integral part of any person's doctor visits and would invariably be in the case of pregnant women. So, I've tacked on some questions. Reading the literature is making me think of many new questions as well as leading me to think about the ways in which identity is formed through relationships and how fixed they seem within that relationship. Because of this, I intent on using memory of mine for my field notes as this project is leading me to think more broadly. That's about it.

Amanda