Recently, American Journal of Bioethics(AJOB), the most prestigious journal with the highest impact factor in the field of ethics (SCI&SSCI IF:6.5), officially published as Target Article the paper entitledEthical Issues in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Practiceby Ma Yonghui (the first author and corresponding author), a young teacher at the Medical College of XMU, and herco-authors. It has been the first-ever publication by scholars from mainland China since the journal was founded in 1999.

This article drew on recent studies of human microecology of life sciences to examine ethical and social challenges facing the application of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as a significant clinical treatment, which fully demonstrated the significant prospects that bioethics held as an interdisciplinary and newly-emerging branch of science. AJOB, in the meantime and in the same issue, has published eight open peer commentaries on Ma’s paper by the leading bioethicists and clinicians from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Ma Yonghui, currently Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Medical College of XMU. Ma, who had once studied under the world-renowned bioethicist, has published papers in such prestigious journals as BMC Medical Ethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Asian Bioethics Review, The Lancet, Experimental Dermatologyand other Chinese journals. She is now in charge of the research project “Ethical Issues and Countermeasures of Human Mircobiome Research” (2016-2018) funded by The National Social Science Fund of China.

Edited by Guo Yanyan, Long Jin

Read this article athttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2017.1299240

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