Anderson Mary B and Peter J Woodrow. 1998. Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
    (A seminal work on relief-to-development)

Anderson Mary B. 1999. Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace—Or War. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Bok, Sissela. 1999. The New Ethical Boundaries, in J Leaning et al, eds, pp. 179-193.(Provocative piece on health care in disasters. Frames the issues well.)

Fadiman, Anne.  1997.  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.(An engaging story of a young Hmong girl with epilepsy in CA and the people in various systems of care who try to treat her)

Harrell-Bond, Barbara E.  1986.  Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Leaning, Jennifer, Susan M Briggs, and Lincoln C Chen, eds. 1999.  Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Levy, Barry S and Victor Sidel, eds. 1997. War and Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kemp, Charles and L Rasbridge. 1999.  Refugee and Immigrant Health. Austin: Texas Department of Health.
“A Well-Founded Fear” – a PBS documentary on the US asylum system: who is deemed worthy and who decides. Including horrific testimonials of torture, the film implies that personality and prejudice, an officer’s level of experience, the applicant’s credibility, and even the translator’s interpretation of a testimony can bear on the outcome. The film argues that any process where life becomes story, a person becomes a god, and justice becomes a lottery is an imperfect process.