Causality 39: Therac-25

Show Notes

This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced

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

Episode 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.

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