From New Zealand, with right-wing Scholastic medical views

Christian Medical Comment is written by a doctor from New Zealand who apparently presently lives in England and publshes from there.  CMC was launched in December 2009, and by September 2010, had achieved regularity of publication (in journaletics theory this is called "periodicity").  Says the author:

Overall there have been 447 individual posts and just over 300,000 page-views – at an average of about 670 views per post.  

CMC has been ranked in the 20 top UK blogs in the Religion and Belief category in the e-buzzing rankings for the last twelve months, peaked at 3rd in March and currently stands at 7th. It ranks 241st overall amongst ebuzzing’s over 210,000 registered blogs.  

CMC is a specialist blog majoring on issues at the interface of Christianity and Medicine with specific focus on the beginning and end of life. But my broader aim is to bring issues to the attention of Christians that I believe they should be informed and concerned about. 

Antithesis:  In contrast to Christian Medical Comment, this blog Christian Medical Observations & Ruminations represents essentially a  new horizon in philosophizing medical ethics (medical theory and philosophy from a Christian persepctive), and its "applications" (medical practice and issues) by communities of moral viewpoints (which are quite diverse, certainly in the USA and Canada, there are different and opposing value-communities, also among Christians).

I woud generally categorize CMC's orientation as Scholasticism, which under the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, buttresses the so-called "Consistent Ethics of Life," a moral philosophy rooted in the reductionist bioticism of Aristotle and transmitted into Christianity principally by St Thomas Aquinas whose beliefs soon enuff became mandatory for RC's and Catholic Hospitals, and the lay hatred in many places of all and every abortion, and all and every death with dignity (which they discuss, CMC discusses using the alienating pseudoGreek term euthanasia. As the Protestant public philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd has shown, Roman Catholic philosophy under St Thomas (a very decent man who was committed to the common good as he saw it under Aristotle's tutelage when the latter philosopher's Metaphysics re-emerged to public life under a school of Islamic scholars generated by a Muslim philosopher in Spain, Averroes).  From the Grand Master to the Islamic student to Thomas of Aquino, Italy, we get the biotistic-reductionist doctrine of a substantial soul which is a dualist doctrine because it founds the substantial soul on the co-doctrine of a substantial body — the body-soul dualism that still bedevils us, even Protestantism in Britain, Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, Netherlands, Canada, the USA, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico — just to name a few of the countries where I personally have friends.

The idea of a dualism of the human being into two kinds of being, one a substance called "soul," the other substance called "body" — the body-soul dualism — was held by one of the great intellectual heroes of mine, Herman Bavinck (1854-1920) until his studies about 1916 (Cornelius Jaarsma) in the dualism-based philosophy of faculty psychology for which he had argued scholastically, collapsed on top of him.  He studied everything he coud lay his hands in the emerging science of psychology, he believed in common grace a doctrine whereby you christianly critique your sources but always look carefully to the insights that ring true to your Christian perceptiveness, ring true as "kernels of truth" discovered by scholars and scientists of "every faith and none" — for which truth kernels you praise God as you add to your critique of the unbelieving, your appreciation of their findings.  You learn from those to whom you own views are largely antithetical.  The collapse of a life-time's work by Bavinck in psychology, pedagogy, and pastoral counselling did not much lead him forward to a new radically-reformational post-Scholastic new psychology or philosophy of psychology.  Bavinck's implosion due to the body/soul dualismand its consequent faculty psychology (where mind and will become substantive categories, the legacy of which results in further dualisms — body/mind dualism, body/will dualism and all the other faculties either of body (which is the human form of matter which has faculties or functions of strength, sexuality, height, weight etc) or soul (which has faculties of mind/nous, will, and several others).  As this Scholastic theoretical framework imploded, few thinkers in the Netherlands noticed.  However, some close readers of Bavinck, later, and particularly philosopher DHTh Vollenhoven and juridics scientist and philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd ventured into a deep critique of Scholastic dualistic theory of the human person.  They initiated the construction of the alternative to Scholasticism and its ethics in the form of the theory of the human core (coeur, "heart," following Von Meyenfeldt) and its normal mantel of functions, functies-mantel).  This opened the way for a new start in an explicitly and radically Christian way, clear of Scholastic metaphysics.  

I think this christianly critical approach puts us in principle in a position as Protestants but open to friendly and diological Catholics too to reject the Roman Cburch's Magisterium's ethics and moral guidelines on any matter "resolved" for them by the so-called "Consistent Ethics of Life" which is Aquinine and Aristotelian to its religious core.