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  • Nancy G. Leveson. Safeware: System Safety and Computers. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 515-553.
  • Nancy G. Leveson and Clark S. Turner. An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents. Computers, Ethics, and Social Values, Johnson, D.G. and Nissenbaum, H., eds.: 478.
  • Nancy G. Leveson and Clark S. Turner. An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents. IEEE Computer. 26(7): 18-41, July 1993.
  • Computing Cases website. See above link. Materials on case including interviews and supporting documents.
  • Sara Baase. A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 125-129.
  • Chuck Huff. Good Computing: A Virtue Approach to Computer Ethics. Draft for course CS-263. June 2005.
  • Chuck Huff and Richard Brown. Integrating Ethics into a Computing Curriculum: A Case Study of the Therac-25. Available at Computing Cases website. See above link.
  • For time line see: http://computingcases.org/case materials/therac/supporting docs/therac resources/Timeline.html
  • Leveson in Safeware provides an excellence summary of the literature on system safety. For two further excellent resources consult the next two references.
  • Perrow, C. (1984) Normal Accidents: Living with high-risk technologies. Basic Books, NY,NY.
  • Reason, J. (1990/1999) Human Error Cambridge University Press: London.