ABSTRACT
The article examines the processes of recruitment and forms of insertion of the medical elites in Sergipe in the nineteenth century. To do this, we analyzed the trajectories of these professionals considering, on the one hand, the political history of the family group they were members of, and on the other, their relationship with political and economic space. The conclusions permit the identification of which family based social relations provided the criteria and the conditions of recruitment to the medical elite. Moreover, the title of doctor represented a decisive strategy in the forms of restructuring political and economic elites, since through this degree the elites preserved their dominant position and valorized their social capital.
Keywords:
politics, Sergipe, Nineteenth century; medicine; family; elites