Just how scientific is the practice of medicine?  How do doctors talk about and make use of scientific evidence?  How do scientists see their own work and its applicability in the world at large?

Helping us dissect these issues are Ryerson University’s Colleen Derkatch, Stanford’s Colin Gottlieb, and the University of Michigan’s John Litell.

You can find Dr. Derkatch’s book, Bounding Biomedicine (U of Chicago Press 2016), here.

And here’s the episode itself: