Charity girl
By: Michael Lowenthal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780618546299
Subjects: Government policy; Sexually transmitted diseases; Quarantine; Fiction; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Patients; Prevention & control; History; Popular Works; Women patients; History, 20th Century
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.