Show Notes
Reports into the Incidents:
An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents
Medical Devices: The Therac-25
The Therac-25: 30 Years Later
A Usage-Model Based Approach to Test Therac-25
Good Computing: A Virtue Approach To Computer Ethics: Chapter 6
Links of Potential Interest:
Therac-25
The PDP-11 Assembly Language
PDP-11
Digital Equipment Corporation
Programmed Data Processor
Rad (unit)
Order of Magnitude
Myelitis
Collimator
Fatal Dose: Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors
Reactor Accidents: The Human Fallout
An Overview on Radiotherapy: From Its History to Its Current Applications in Dermatology
In MedTech History: Mammography
The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found
AMA: My professor investigated the Therac-25 incident
How history, principles and standards led to the safety PLC
Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producers:
'r' and Chip Salzenberg.Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, John Whitlow, Kevin Koch, Oliver Steele, Lesley Law Chan, Hafthor and Shane O'Neill.