Charity girl

By Michael Lowenthal

Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases, Patients, Popular Works, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Government policy, Women patients, Fiction, medical, History, 20th Century, Fiction, United states, fiction, History, Prevention & control, Quarantine

Description: During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center for medical treatment with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances.