Still hoping to work on Cheers, Mirkin sent a spec script of an episode of Taxi to Cheers writers Ken Levine and David Sacks.

Sacks ' work has been featured in a " broader range of media than those of any other contemporary medical author " and in 1990, The New York Times said he " has become a kind of poet laureate of contemporary medicine ".

: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome, says Shapiro " contrasted his own careful clinical work with Sacks ' idiosyncratic and anecdotal approach to a clinical investigation ".

Sacks was called " the man who mistook his patients for a literary career " by British academic and disability-rights activist Tom Shakespeare, and one critic called his work " a high-brow freak show ".

MCA was influenced by the work on Harvey Sacks and his work on Membership Categorization Device ( MCD ).

Oliver Sacks has repeatedly cited Jackson as an inspiration in his neurologic work.

Both Sudnow and Garfinkel regard the work of Sacks as outside the ethnomethodological mainstream.

Sacks died early in his career, but his work was championed by others in his field, and CA has now become an established force in sociology, anthropology, linguistics, speech-communication and psychology.

He moved to the United States as a young man and rose to become an assistant to Emanuel Sacks, vice president of entertainment at NBC, but was fired during a year of recovery from a traffic accident and had to work as a night clerk in a bookstore.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

Eban's cousin, Oliver Sacks, is a neurologist and author and his son, Eli Eban, is a renowned clarinetist who teaches at Indiana University.

Having had some previous experience in transcribing when she was hired in 1963 as a clerk typist at the UCLA Department of Public Health to transcribe sensitivity-training sessions for prison guards, Jefferson began transcribing some of the recordings that served as the materials out of which Harvey Sacks ’ earliest lectures were developed.

In September, 2012, Dr. Sacks was appointed clinical professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center, with support from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

Sacks began consulting at chronic care facility Beth Abraham Hospital ( now Beth Abraham Health Services ), a member of CenterLight Health System in Bronx, NY, in 1966.

Sacks served as an instructor and later clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1966 to 2007, and also held an appointment at the New York University School of Medicine from 1999 to 2007.

Since 1966 Sacks has served as a neurological consultant to various New York City nursing homes that are run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and from 1966 to 1991, he was a consulting neurologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center.

The IMNF again bestowed a Music Has Power Award on Sacks in 2006 to commemorate " his 40 years at Beth Abraham and honor his outstanding contributions in support of music therapy and the effect of music on the human brain and mind ".

* Oliver Sacks at Columbia University

* Oliver Sacks article archive at The New York Review of Books

A doctoral disstertaton, " The Necessity of Rebellion: The Novels of Maxwell Bodenheim ," was produced by Arthur B. Sacks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975.

The book also talks about many other things that happened to Sacks, such as the many whippings at Braefield school, the burning down of the Crystal Palace, his interest in amateur chemistry, and his short-lived obsession with coloring his own black-and-white photographs using chemicals in his home laboratory.

'" Sacks added, " I was at pains to say that he would be much more creative alive than dead.

As with Sacks ' other writings, the book is a comprehensive review of the subject aimed at the lay population and uses numerous case histories.

While Andy Travis received his name and some personality elements from a cousin of Wilson, he was based primarily on innovative program director Mikel Herrington, who also was the inspiration for the character Jeff Dugan in the 1978 film FM, written by Ezra Sacks who had worked at KMET.

Many in the first group were laughing at the speech, and Sacks claims their laughter to be at the president's facial expressions and tone, which they find " not genuine.

* Oliver Sacks ( born 1933 ), who wrote the book Awakenings, whose adaptation was filmed at a house similar to his own, but on a different street on the island

Slide, LinkedIn, Yelp, Geni. com, and Yammer were founded by Thiel's former colleagues at PayPal: Slide by Levchin, Linkedin by Reid Hoffman, Yelp by Jeremy Stoppelman, Geni. com, Yammer by David Sacks and Xero by Rod Drury.

After this first generation, the most important critics to carry on the theory were Wayne C. Booth ( who taught at the University of Chicago from 1947-1950 and again from 1962 until his death in 2005 ), and his contemporaries, Richard L. Levin, Sheldon Sacks, Robert Marsh, Arthur Heiserman, and Ralph W. Rader.

* " Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds " at ted. com

Sacks received his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley ( 1966 ), an LL. B.

At Beth Abraham, Sacks worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades.

The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, and the head of the London Beth Din, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, responded that, because of what they considered to be Jacobs's heretical beliefs, " they believed that had Jacobs uttered the words ' Our God who gave us the Torah of truth ', he would have made a false statement ".

A similar stance was taken by Sacks and his Beth Din when they prevented the retired Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who had helped establish the British branch of the Masorti movement, from being called up for the Reading of the Torah on the Saturday before his grand-daughter's wedding.

A 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary and " A Kind of Alaska ", a 1985 play by Harold Pinter, were also based on Sacks ' book.

* Koren Sacks Siddur ( Hebrew-English ), Koren Publishers Jerusalem: based on latest Singer's prayer book, above ( described as the first siddur to " pose a fresh challenge to the ArtScroll dominance.

Other noted New Testament commentary authors include: Joseph Shulam, who has written commentaries on Acts, Romans, and Galatians ; Arnold Fruchtenbaum of Ariel Ministries, who has written commentaries on the Epistles, Judges & Ruth, and Genesis, and 7 systematic doctrinal studies ; Tim Hegg of TorahResource, who has written commentaries on Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and is presently examining Matthew ; Daniel Thomas Lancaster, who has written extensively for the First Fruits of Zion Torah Club series ; Stuart Sacks, author of Hebrews Through a Hebrews ' Eyes ; and J. K. McKee of TNN Online who has written several volumes under the byline " for the Practical Messianic " ( James, Hebrews, Philippians, Galatians, and surveys of both the Tanakh and the Apostolic Scriptures ).

* Oliver Sacks – famous neurologist was brought up on the corner of Exeter & Mapesbury Roads in the house where his parents were GPs.

Sacks describes his cases with a wealth of narrative detail, concentrating on the experiences of the patient ( in the case of his A Leg to Stand On, the patient was himself ).

Sacks discussed his struggles with prosopagnosia in an interview by Leslie Stahl on the March 18, 2012 episode of 60 Minutes.

* Oliver Sacks on CNN in January 2011

* Oliver Sacks on Science Friday, National Public Radio

Grandin became well known after being described by Oliver Sacks in the title narrative of his book An Anthropologist on Mars ( 1995 ); the title is derived from Grandin's description of how she feels around neurotypical people.

* Uncle Tungsten on Oliver Sacks ' official site

In an article by Gaby Wood published on the first anniversary of Gray's disappearance, Sacks proposed that Gray perceived the taking of his own life as part of what he had to say: " On several occasions he talked about what he called ' a creative suicide.

Indeed, when Oliver Sacks subsequently visited the island after reading a book on the subject, he noted that a group of elderly islanders talking together dropped briefly into sign language then back into speech.