Do television programme makers have an ethical responsibility?
bmj.com, 15 Dec 2002 [Full text] Figure 1 Enquiries about cervical cancer (CancerBACUP telephone helpline, April – June 2001) Competing interests: RH is Research Officer at CancerBACUP, funded by a project grant from Cancer Research UK Submit rapid responsePublished 6 February 2003 The double-edged role of the media in suicide • Kathy PM Chan, Adjunct associate professor • Dominic TS Lee, Paul SF Yip, Sing Lee Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, PR China The alarming escalation of charcoal burning suicide in Hong Kong supports Hawton’s1 call for guidelines on the reporting of suicide. We previously reported on the emergence of a new method of suicide in Hong Kong.2 In Nov 1998, a 35-year old woman left a suicide note and burnt charcoal in a barbeque grill within her sealed and cramped apartment. This swiftly generated a lethal level of carbon monoxide. The incident including the methodology of the act was pictorially reported in the loc
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